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JUST after 4 on Saturday afternoon, the Army Band will sound Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary. At that signal, Richard Nixon will lead his daughter 'Tricia down the wisteria-laced stairs from the Blue Room balcony and into the White House Rose Garden. There, in front of a bowered altar just outside the President's Oval Office, before 400 guests, Tricia Nixon will become Mrs. Edward Finch...
...Study of Sport and Society, "to see a couple of years ago that the counter-culture was going to have an impact on the nation's athletics, one of the most conservative, narrow and encrusted segments of our society." It did take a kind of Jock Jeremiah, though, to spread the word and to preach the gospel of locker-room dissent. That Scott has done. After teaching a course called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Education: A Socio-Psychological Evaluation" at the University of California at Berkeley last year, he founded his nonprofit institute to hold seminars, publish a newsletter...
...until he reaches the Massachusetts Institute of Technology does the author reveal his true capacities as a Jeremiah. Here he finds engineers and behavioral scientists assembling a future that they intend to inflict upon us whether we want it or not. Others before Thompson have pointed out the horrors of technocracy, but seldom with such a combination of pique and precision. (Example: "M.I.T. needs a large psychiatric clinic because the effect of technological training is to do to the psyche what industry does to the environment.") Thompson's perceptions may be partly explained by the fact that he once...
Nowadays, those little men in the funnies carrying signs reading THE END OF THE WORLD IS AT HAND need only walk as far as the nearest publisher's office to get the message printed. The latest Jeremiah to join the prophets of ecological disaster is Robert Boyle, who is concerned with the Hudson River and man's efforts to turn this noble flood into a squalid sewer...
...acting, crowned by Hume Cronyn's compelling performance, is excellent. The other characters, however, are left with usually sketchy parts. Margaret Braidwood as Mrs. Crowe and Paul Harding as the Bishop of Caerleon were splendid, though Donald Ewer as Mr. Crowe's accomplice in blackmail burlesqued the role of Jeremiah Sant with a thick Irish accent. Liza Cole, Julie Andrews' mother in Hawaii, played the warm-hearted Agnes with unabashed charm. Her reward after the wildly sentimental scene with Hadrian in the Papal chambers was a well-deserved round of applause...