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MacBird! by Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine. Long before the play's off-Broadway opening last week, an honor guard of coterie intellectuals, including Critic Dwight Macdonald and Yale Drama School Dean Robert Brustein, went into tub-thumping ecstasy over MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment...
...LAST ONE LEFT, by John D. MacDonald. Murder at sea, mayhem on land, and skulduggery everywhere in this tautly told story by one of America's masters of suspense...
...spectacle in which the Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First Eske Holm, a Flindt protege. Brash, bristling with energy, Flindt has reorganized the training methods of the company and its dance school, initiated open auditions and, for the first time, hired non-Danish dancers. ("Five million Danes are not enough to draw from...
...Author MacDonald raises the take to $800,000 in untraceable cash, and broadens the cast to include finagling financiers, tough Texas lawyers, Cuban exiles, beach boys, con men and cops. He has also invented a demented new character who holds the shipwrecked girl prisoner, thereby prolonging the story and deepening the suspense. The action ranges from Corpus Christi to Sarasota to Nassau-and everywhere MacDonald demonstrates his ability to handle complex relationships involving scads of people on a single page...
...Hours. MacDonald is so good, in fact, that it is a wonder he is not better. For years, friends and fans have urged him to tackle more serious themes, but MacDonald, who lives comfortably in a gulfside house on Siesta Key off Sarasota, insists that he is doing exactly what he wants. He feels no need, he says, to write "the Big Book," the kind written by "the Irvings-Irving Wallace, 'Irving' Robbins, 'Irving' Ruark, and that woman, 'Irving' Rand." His own work, he adds, without false modesty, is demanding enough. Anyone else could...