Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Inherited ill-gotten gains in the hands of an idealistic newspaper editor and publisher (Monte Markham) bring him romance, adventure, and a public relations man (Pat Harrington) for a sidekick. Premiere...
...Justice Department displayed an unwonted sense of history-even of theatricality-in selecting the defendants. They represent the total spectrum of dissent and ordinarily, observes Author Michael Harrington, "they would find it difficult to agree on the time of day." As in the conspiracy trial of Dr. Benjamin Spock and four other antiwar activists, some of the Chicago "conspirators" had not met one another before they were indicted...
...altar Claude succumbs to a touch of Portnoy's complaint. He develops a ravenous appetite for his beautiful English teacher (Prudence Harrington) and abruptly decides that he has found true love. Barricades are formed by the relatives; insults and wounds are exchanged. But finally Claude and Isabelle discover that truce is beauty and end the war at a ritualistic nuptial feast...
...arts, Harrington condemns classical tragedy. It is "one of the most pernicious notions ever to occur to mankind," he writes, because it "perpetuates the superstitious conviction that hubris must be punished." For Harrington, pride is everything. All forms of upmanship are ambitious strategies. By diminishing others around him, the individual moves a notch toward divinity himself...
...Whether Harrington's hotly held bootstrap faith in salvation through medical engineering is conceived as atheistic Im-mortalism or accommodated under the umbrella of God's will is a matter of choice. Even world-weary skeptics, though, should find comfort in the vision of a future in which man's most fitting epitaph will be "Enough Is Enough...