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...nearly four-hour-long play about the Tyrone family-actually the young O'Neill, his father, mother and elder brother-occupies a single day in 1912. The touchy, hard-drinking father-a gifted actor who had let himself dwindle into a successful matinee idol-is a miser...
...Roman Catholic church, and erected in its place a 25-ft. bronze statue of Stalin. There he stood, in baggy pants and handlebar mustaches, symbol of Hungary's servitude. One of the manifestoes had called for the removal of the statue. The crowd decided to do its own idol busting...
...Hungary's revolution against the Habsburg monarch. The yeast of rebellion among young Hungarian intellectuals had been fermenting these past few months in a group called the Petofi Club. A voice in the crowd shouted a line from a Petofi poem: "We vow we can never be slaves." Idol Smashing. The Petofi spirit spread like wildfire. All over Budapest there were demonstrations. Student manifestoes demanded religious freedom, the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the public trial of Rakosi and his lieutenants, sweeping economic reforms. One demanded that the Russians explain what they had done with Hungarian uranium. The Marseillaise...
...medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted in a moment of drunken glee...
Banks, Barbershops, Etc. Burly, thunder-voiced George Bender, 60, is perfectly frank about the length and breadth of his campaign. "I never started," he says, "and I never stop. Since his 1954 election to complete the unexpired term of his idol, Robert A. Taft, Bender has worked hard to live down his reputation as the bell ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican National Convention. He has built up a record as a solid pro-Eisenhower Senator, and few Republicans have a better right to call upon Ike for help. Most observers agree that although he has cut deeply into...