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...FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe musical remains indestructible showmanship, with Audrey Hepburn as the grimy flower peddler brought to full bloom by Professor Rex Harrison...
Revolution-by-Consent. Columnist Max Lerner, whose most recent book was called The Age of Overkill, used the occasion to go far beyond the immediate and practical problem of price. "The State of the Union address," said Lerner in the New York Post, "won our assent because we were wholly ripe for it-and Johnson had helped make us ripe. But it was full of worn and weary phrases. Its key concept of the Great Society has never been thought through, either by Johnson or-as far as we know-by anyone around him. Nothing in the speech, in word...
Today in Washington, Lerner said, there is a new kind of Congress, a new kind of President and an extraordinary Supreme Court. "Put the three old branches of the Federal Government together in their new forms and you get something that ought to be the most impressive revolution-by-consent in American history...
...Johnson lead that revolution? Lerner was filled with doubt. "A revolution is a mood and a climate," he said. "It is against power abused and injustice encrusted . . . it is a sense of resistance overcome and triumph achieved; it is a heady madness of winning through. One feels that Johnson by his innermost nature is incapable of generating such a revolutionary climate and leading such a mood...
...trouble is, Lerner concluded, neither welfare programs nor specific State or Defense Department schemes add up to a Great Society. "Before you can get a society, great or small, you need more than a consensus. You need a nexus: something to tie the parts into a whole, something to cement the individual wills, something to stir the nation's pulse, not continually feel...