Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toronto to watch the show on the independent Canadian TV network. Next day he flew to New York to screen the program for newsmen. Ironically, it was one of the Smotherses' best-produced shows, featuring Tommy and Singer Nancy Wilson in a parody of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald ditties, several lively musical numbers, and ending with a tribute to Martin Luther King (not one of the networks had chosen to do a special on the anniversary of King's death). The sermonette that CBS felt would have been considered "irreverent and offensive by a large segment...
...came to total disaster at the famous June 1965 White House Festival of the Arts. Incensed by then about the Viet Nam war and always snobbishly intolerant of the presidential manner, a number of intellectuals noisily stayed away. Among those who did come, one guest-New York Critic Dwight Macdonald-cheekily circulated an anti-Johnson petition at the gathering. Another, John Hersey, chose to read pointed excerpts from his book Hiroshima despite fierce White House displeasure ("The President and I," said Mrs. Johnson, "do not want this man to come here and read these passages...
...think that anyone wants two colleges, but exactly what will be done in this area is still to be worked out," Spencer C. MacDonald, Harvard Coordinator for Governmental Relations, said yesterday. "We are also still very much up in the air as to just how we can contribute to the project. We have been to three meetings convened by the Model Cities people, but much still remains to be worked...
...spoke a few lonely pickets outside the Princeton Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy, and Andrew Kopkind as likely intellectuals who might have been invited. Brown added Tom Hayden to the list...
...Philbin appeared to have won a three way race against Republican Laurence Curtis and Independent Chandler Stevens. In the tenth district Mrs. Margaret M. Heckler, the Republican who unseated former Speaker Joseph W. Martin seems to have handily defeated her Democratic challenger Edmund Dinis. Another incumbent, Rep. Torbert H. MacDonald defeated former White House aid William S. Abbott...