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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophocles & White. Kennedy also showed that he will yield to no Republican in being beastly to Lyndon Johnson. In some of the strongest political invective yet heard this year, he harpooned the President for almost every problem facing modern America, from Viet Nam to water pollution, from urban riots to the suicide rate among American Indians. He paraphrased Sophocles on the sin of pride that inhibits a strong man from admitting his mistakes. In Kansas, he evoked the late William Allen White ("The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow"*) to show that someone past...
...weeks, the slogan had been "Nixon's the One." After Rockefeller's unex pected withdrawal, it might well have been "Nixon's the Only One." Few challenged the happy reaction of one Nixon volunteer in Wisconsin when she heard the news...
Another favorite is Sculptress Marisol. In fact, the Bergmans were lunching with her on Nov. 22, 1963, when they heard of Kennedy's assassination. They went sadly back to her studio, there saw her 1961 Kennedy Family. It had been returned from a West Coast gallery where a fellow artist had playfully drilled the Jack Kennedy doll in the chest with a pistol. Aghast but fascinated, Bergman bought the work after Marisol had repaired...
...trail of blood led from the bedroom door into the hallway and up the stairs. David Edsall, who lives on the second floor, heard Miss Marshall screaming and found her on the landing. An ambulance carried her to the Cambridge City Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival...
...shoots himself in The Cherry Orchard, though at one point a clerk trips into the wings with a revolver. The traditional offstage commotion is heard a few moments later but no one rushes in to report that Semyon Panteleevich Yepikhodov has blown his brains out. Instead a character surmises that some bucket has dropped in some well, the play goes on and Yepikhodov comes back to swallow nails in the fourth...