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...Harris gives the performance of a star's star, while Durning acts with a subtlety, daring and solidity that he has not achieved before, even in That Championship Season. Whatever qualms some drama critics have expressed about Joseph Papp's play choices, his first season at the helm of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has brought a superior caliber of acting such as was never seen or even remotely dreamt of there in past years...
...that job he won a Peabody Award for a series he developed, Your Voice of America. On the side, he also took the helm of a theater in Stamford, Conn., that quickly folded under...
After five years of Nixon at the nation's helm, none of this should seem surprising. That national policy under his administration should benefit industry and hurt consumers, and bring profit to a small group of the powerful corporate interests, is only logical. Everything ends up being subverted for political ends. Even now, Congress is considering a measure which would end busing to promote racial balance in schools on the grounds that it uses up too much gasoline. Nixon must find the energy crisis almost too good to be true. It even makes people forget about Watergate. If there hadn...
...campaign. The President inspired an ovation by declaring in a nautical note: "I can assure you that you don't need to worry about my getting seasick or jumping ship. It is the captain's job to bring that ship into port. I am going to stay at the helm until we bring it into port...
DAVID BEN-GURION was one of the last of the seemingly larger-than-life national leaders who emerged in the 1930s and 40s. A few of these men--China's Mao, Argentina's Peron, Yugoslavia's Tito--are still at the helm, but almost all of them have been replaced by people like Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon, uninspiring but still dangerously powerful...