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...surreptitious visitors, Jane McNamara Kelly ’79, Janice L. Pelletier ’79, Carol M. Imm ’80, Mary Anne Z. Kocur ’81 and four unidentified others, arrived sporting tuxedos and three-piece suits, invited by D.U. members R. Stewart Shofner ’79 and Stephen A. Kowal...
...West Wing, but otherwise there is nothing particularly revelatory or shocking here. And there's something a little surreal about the book's lack of perspective. Kennedy was a President who confronted the unthinkable in many forms, be it nuclear annihilation or Oleg Cassini dancing the twist with Robert McNamara. Grace and Power gives them equal weight. --By Lev Grossman
Animal Boat, by William Donnelly and directed by Heather McNamara, concerns Schabato (Kevin LaVelle), a press secretary for a large Enron-like chemical and petroleum company. Schabato relates an increasingly absurd series of diasasters that have befallen the corporation—corrupt executives, oil spills and chemical spills—before revealing his dissatisfaction with his career and his college ambition to become a writer of children’s songs. The sketch’s highlight is LaVelle’s performance of the title song—Donnelly may well have a career as a children?...
...Kennedy's candidacy in 1960, mostly because the Senator was Catholic and anticommunist, like Califano's parents. He worked hard for Kennedy in New York, and when J.F.K. became President, Califano, tired of practicing tax law, volunteered to work in the Pentagon, where he eventually became one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids...
Lucky enough to have little to do with McNamara's war in Vietnam, Califano did get his hands dirty working with a group, run by Robert Kennedy, that was charged with eliminating Fidel Castro. It came up with some really bizarre ideas: "Attach incendiary devices to bats," which would then "retire to attics ... and start fires." Wacky plans aside, the group, using CIA operatives and U.S. mobsters, tried to kill Castro in what was known as Operation Mongoose. Califano confesses to taking no pride in this mission. But he does conclude, without explanation, that Lyndon Johnson was right when...