Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach patriotism and respect with such antics? King Lear . . . King Smear...
...Kudos to Caricaturist David Levine for his truly memorable cover drawing of L.B.J. as a beleaguered Lear. Artist Levine is a worthy successor to Hogarth, Tenniel, Nast and Low-those forceful masters of effective caricature...
...fear of approaching death, the play has been given a sleepy rather than springy staging by Director Ellis Rabb. Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton as the king mopes, whines and stumbles about the stage in tattered melancholy, a sort of counterfeit Lear...
...long and hot debate among readers and even among our own staff. Adding to the discussion about this year's highly controversial Man are certain to be some arguments centering on the cover itself. In his mock-heroic caricature, Artist David Levine depicted the President as King Lear, harassed by two vexatious members of his family, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Congressman Wilbur Mills, and comforted by a third, none other than his Vice President. Artist Levine, working with the editors, first thought of showing L.B.J. as a burdened Job, but he ultimately chose Shakespeare's troubled King...
Often, the 36th President called to mind the Duke of Kent's lament for King Lear: "A good man's fortune may grow out at heels." Whether Johnson was a good man to begin with is disputed by many of his critics, but his tribulations were sufficient to deter any man of lesser fortitude or obstinacy. Week by week, his popularity-plummeted, reaching a low of 38% in October, where once he had basked in the approval of 80% of the nation (at year's end, however, Gallup showed him up to 46%). Congress, only recently scorned as a "rubber...