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LUTHER, by John Osborne, chronicles the rising indignation, eloquence and rebellion of its hero against the 16th century church. John Heffernan has replaced Albert Finney as God's Angry Young...
...polka dots. Fifty Senators and 100 Representatives-only the most senior-were there, along with former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, Richard and Pat Nixon, Evangelist Billy Graham, Henry Ford, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr. and dozens from the diplomatic corps, and many, such as Nellie Heffernan, Pat Twohig and Joe Timilty, from the White House domestic staff. Martin Luther King Jr. came late and alone...
...disgusted with those chest-thumping, flag-waving Americans, TIME included, who reacted to the Cuban "victory" as if it were a baseball pennant. Bravery is not an absence of fear but the ability to do what must be done even when afraid. TIME quoted David Heffernan as being able to hold his head up because of the blockade. It was necessary to blockade Cuba, but there is a difference between being right and being righteous. Would Heffernan hold his head up even higher if, come war, we could kill 100 million Russians at a loss of only 50 million Americans...
...Only Course. President Kennedy announced his decisions on television to a somber nation and found that nation overwhelmingly behind him. Perhaps David Heffernan, a Chicago school official who listened to the speech in a crowded hotel lobby, best expressed the American mood: "When it was over, you could feel the lifting of a great national frustration. Suddenly you could hold your head up." Political leaders of both parties swung swiftly behind Kennedy's Cuba policy. G.O.P. congressional leaders issued a joint statement saying: "Americans will support the President on the decision or decisions he makes for the security...
Justices Shallow and Silence provide two carefully done character vignettes. Except for a lapse into poor taste in excessive use of a palsied hand, Franklin Cover's feeble old Silence complements splendidly John Heffernan's Shallow, garrulous and in his dotage. Heffernan, in the first part, brings his talent to the role of Francis, the waiter. Caught between two masters calling for him, he looked for all the world like the proverbial ass, stranded midway between two bales...