Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gone. Johnson's first move was on Part III of the Administration bill, which would empower the U.S. Attorney General to step in and seek injunctions to prevent not only violations of voting rights but violations of any other federally guaranteed civil rights, e.g., education in integrated schools. Many a Northerner (including Dwight Eisenhower) had already made it clear that this was much too broad a sweep for a bill which the Justice Department had advertised as a right-to-vote bill. When New Mexico's liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson expressed doubts about Part III, Johnson encouraged Anderson...
...great theatre. In Part II ("Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas"), Moss has strung several comments by one man together into a short address; with the house lights half up, Professor Barnabas speaks to the audience as though addressing one of his biology classes--an effective solution indeed. For Part III ("The Thing Happens") Moss drew largely on the final portion. In Part IV (the long-winded "Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman") and Part V ("As Far as Thought Can Reach"), he concentrated on the first and last sections...
Philip Burton has staged Parts I and V admirably. But if this show is to survive on Broadway, he will have to be more inventive in Parts III and IV to compensate for Shaw's sagging script. Marvin Reiss's sets and John Boyt's costumes are quite adequate, and Paul Leaf has achieved some handsome silhouettes and stunning lighting...
...root of the trouble was that Russell & Co. had succeeded in stirring up doubts about the House bill's potent Section III, authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctions not alone when voting rights are in jeopardy, but when any civil rights violation occurs. Southern Senators finally argued some liberal Democrats and some Republicans into trying to work out a compromise limiting the Attorney General's power. But despite caucuses and corridor whispers, no compromise acceptable to all elements within the coalition could be found. Causing part of the difficulty was President Eisenhower himself, who one day advised...
...hands at trying to achieve a compromise, announced that all attempts had stopped and that the Senate would simply vote on the amendment offered by an awesome coalition-within-the-coalition-liberal New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson and liberal Vermont Republican George Aiken-to strike out Section III entirely...