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Seldom had so smashing a victory come out of so dull and humdrum a campaign. For three weeks, Britons had barely suppressed yawns as the Conservatives and Laborites exchanged salvos of slogans. Searching for an issue, the Tories attacked Labor for not being eager enough to join the Common Market, for rising prices, for trade-union strong-arm methods, and for just about everything else untoward that has happened in the British Isles for the past 17 months. The Laborites shucked off the attacks, arguing that they had done their best, considering the mess that they had inherited after...
...latest works, currently at Manhattan's Richard Feigen Gallery, avoid the clanking humdrum of much kinetic art. Magically, when someone approaches his Sensitive Sphere, a particolored ball bounces into the air. In a variation, an 8-mm. film is projected into an airborne ball, playfully contorting and distorting the tiny images of human figures. Another work presents the appearance of a bouncing ball inside a shaped screen by means of rear projection...
Neil Miller's orchestra, which is fine when it's blaring forth the overtures, sounds embarrasingly thin during quieter numbers like "How Are Things in Glocca Morra" and "Old Devil Moon." Wendy Philbrick's choreography--except for the genuinely funny beginning of Act II--seems humdrum, and fuller of to-ing and fro-ing than the quarters permit. And in a play about better race relations, it's unfortunate that a late line of dialogue, rather than the makeup, informs us that most of the chorus of sharecroppers is supposed to be Negro...
Burns points out an interesting problem when he says that as national goals and policies become increasingly agreed upon, the President will have to search for new concerns and issues. He discusses a problem which has probably troubled many of us when he points out that "the more humdrum thse matters (of Presidential concern) become, the more the President will turn to his ceremonial and symbolic role to provide circuses to the people." What is to be questioned is Burns's means of approaching the quest for new areas of action...
...Chicago Bears Halfback Gale Sayers, 22, it all seems kind of humdrum...