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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head in disbelief of his own past political views, he admits that had he been of age he probably would have voted for Nixon in 1960. "But I changed when I came to Harvard," Sloan continues with more than a trace of drawl, "and I realized when I heard that Kennedy had been assassinated that I'd become a somewhat contankerous, old-fashioned liberal.... I liked Kennedy's style, he seemed to stand for a kind of rational liberalism which I felt very comfortable with...
...Second Voice. With a knack for administration that was to serve him so well in New York, the young priest brought American publicity techniques to the Vatican, introducing such novelties as the mimeographed handout and the background news conference. The first voice heard on Vatican Radio in 1931 was the Pope's; the second was Spellman...
Enter Beatty, who had heard about the script in a Paris conversation with Truffaut. Beatty found Benton and Newman in New York City, liked their work enough to wait out the original producers' option, then bought the property for $75,000, intending to produce as well as direct under a contract with Warner Bros. Sister Shirley was to star as Bonnie. Eventually, he decided that he ought to play Clyde, which meant that Shirley had to go; after all, the picture featured more than enough gore and transgressions without seeming to add incest to injury...
Prince Erie boasts some of the finest dialog heard on a stage in-recent years. Mayer's speeches combine formal rhythms and precise images with deliberately chosen colloquialisms and small mistakes in grammar, both creating characterization and recreating the formal journalistic idiom of the period. Reporting the market crash, the Heraldreporter ends his news story with, "Threats against Fisk are freely indulged in." Fisk's early employer Daniel Drew prays, "Deliver me from the House of the Harlot, Lord, and from the rest of this here lewd company who don't give two bits for Thy commandments...
When American officials heard this, however, they chose to sit on the proposal. Then, on November 2, in an attempt to regain the initiative, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg told Congress that the United States would vote for an invitation to the Vietcong to appear before a meeting of the Security Council. Goldberg's speech was billed as yet another major U.S. diplomatic concession to the enemy. It sought to prove once again that the United States is truly anxious to reach a peace settlement, and that its concerted efforts have failed only because of the intransigence of the North Vietnamese...