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...Voorhis. After discussing the proposition at length, says Pat, "I could see that it was the life he wanted, so I told him that it was his decision, and I would do what he liked." Nine days after Dick Nixon announced his candidacy in what seemed to be a hopeless race, his first daughter was born...
Many unionists share Meany's opinions of Powell, pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, husband of Entertainer Hazel Scott and congressional eight-termer.* They also fear that Powell, by using his old technique of tacking hopeless civil rights riders on to favorable labor bills, will effectively block the bills. Despite this sound suspicion, Meany's public blast against Powell backfired, brought to the surface some old inter-union disputes that threaten to split the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In particular, it rekindled a smoldering feud between Meany and able, aging (70) Asa Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping...
...into the modern world where other Eskimos have fared so poorly. Says Hous ton: "Their art is the one thing that can preserve their pride in their Eskimo identity. So long as their art remains true and vital and coveted by the outside world, they will be saved from hopeless apathy in the face of the onslaught of the almighty kadluna [white man]. After they learn to cope with their new world, their art may die. All I ask is that it will then have served its purpose...
Charles works for a trade paper, and he could serve as a model for the hopeless, lonely English young men who have lost even the energy to be angry. He lives in a seedy flat, eats in grubby restaurants, walks himself into exhaustion, and desperately kills time in movie houses. Compared to Brother Julian, though, Charlie's not 'arf bad. Julian, married and an advertising writer, is a compulsive, indiscriminate lecher without being really lustful. At the moment he is in real trouble, having got his landlord's teen-age daughter pregnant. His wife knows, and soon...
...distance operators, playing the sole part in a TV play about a sinking alcoholic. Desperately using the phone as a lifeline to the real world, he talked to his exwife, his daughter, his new fiancee and some old friends; he drank and wept, offered the drunk's typical, hopeless apologies, made glib cracks, and laughed with the sound of wind crossing a row of empty bottles. Call Me Back, a creditable but excessively maudlin first TV drama by Gagwriter Tony Webster, helped Art Carney add a superbly handled tour de force to his impressive list of acting credits...