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...breakfast with reporters in McLean the day after the convention, Kennedy slouched in an armchair and sipped coffee in his spacious, beamed living room. Joan strolled into the room and sat at his arm, relaxed and confident. For the first time, he willingly reflected on what had happened to him in the campaign, and what might be his future in politics. Said he: "After the early primaries, we knew the chances of getting the nomination were remote. But programs and issues that we were raising were beginning to take on a life of their own, and I saw them expressed...
...shouting begins when Joan Kennedy enters the hall; it is clear that the Kennedy forces want some preaching tonight. They are in no mood for deals--when Carter transportation secretary Neal Goldsmith announces that "compromise unity language is circulating on the floor," they boo. When Carter consumer affair representative Esther Peterson ends her defense of the Georgia presidency by yelling "Four more years," there are enough jeers to positively melt the heart of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). And so, by the time Rep. Barbara McClusky (D-Md.) introduces Kennedy, they are ready. The orchestra plays "Macnamara's Band...
Here, Ernotte has invented a little epilogue, with a leap forward in time, as Shaw did in Saint Joan. Richard, wearing a modern gray (Nazi?) overcoat and a pair of spectacles, appears over the horizon and slowly walks downstage. The slain Catesby starts to resurrect from the dead, and there is a sudden complete blackout. Richard, against all tradition, has the first word in this play; must be also have the last...
...Joan D. Flocks Gainesville...
...Orinoco and the Mississippi-combined. And its inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...