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...most of it is successful. And all of it is charged by the virtuoso performance of Cliff Gorman, hitherto best known for his role as the swishiest homosexual in both the stage and film versions of The Boys in the Band. Gorman dominates every scene-belting out the bitter monologues, batting back the foul-mouthed wisecracks, delivering dialects, imitations, sound effects-including a tour de force impersonation of a tape recorder on fast rewind. The first-night audience gave him a well-deserved standing ovation. They may also have been applauding for Bruce, whose time has come-belatedly...
Beginning in July, Vermont youths will be able at 18 to vote in all elections, buy any alcoholic beverage, marry without parental consent, sign legal contracts, incur debts (and be held accountable for them), inherit estates and be treated as adults by the courts. All these privileges were hitherto reserved for those who had reached the age of 21. The bill was introduced by Vermont's youngest legislator, 24-year-old Representative Kenneth Parker (who in the last election defeated a man 50 years older), and was signed into law by the nation's oldest Governor, Deane...
...they point in any one direction.... Thus dialectical materialism is seen to offer the only approach to reality which can give action a direction. The facts no longer appear strange when they are comprehended in their coherent reality, in the relation of all partial aspects to their inherent, but hitherto unelucidated roots in the whole...
...same day that Brezhnev delivered his speech, the Soviet chief delegate to the 25-nation U.N. disarmament talks in Geneva unexpectedly adopted a hitherto rejected Western position on the outlawing of bacteriological warfare. For two years the Soviets insisted on lumping bans on bacteriological and chemical warfare together in one treaty. The U.S. and its NATO allies refused, because large chemical warfare arsenals are already in existence, which would require on-site inspection, a procedure that invariably is vetoed by the Soviets. The Soviet switch meant that a treaty barring the production and wartime use of germs and toxins might...
Fruitful Fields. Some of the new mission activity, especially among Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists in Latin America, has been the result, ironically enough, of the Second Vatican Council. The council's decree on religious liberty was quickly felt in Roman Catholic countries, where hitherto severe restrictions on Protestant evangelizing all but disappeared. At the end of World War II, there were only 1,900,000 Protestants in Latin America; today there are ten times that many...