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...Wall (by Millard Lampell; based on John Hersey's novel), rather than enclosing something dramatically, restricts and obstructs it. The harrowing chronicle of the Jews of Warsaw, first made ghetto captives by the Nazis, then robbed of homes and dignity and freedom until in enormous numbers they were sent "East" and fiendishly robbed of life, explodes its horrors over and over again. Its nightmares are vivid upon the stage; the mere sight-through the smoke of gunfire-of the Wall speaks volumes. But what power The Wall commands comes from the tale rather than the telling, from scattered incidents...
...Wall suffers, too. from appearing, as it were, between perspectives-years after the scarehead moment of horror, when anguish nullifies distance, and too soon for historical tragedy, when art provides it. But form and perspective apart, The Wall is simply not well enough written. Adapter Millard Lampell gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy...
Flunkees & Indians. The answer is a pudgy, cyclonic Presbyterian minister named Millard Roberts, 41, who had made an impressive record as fund raiser for Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church. Swirling in as president in 1955, he treated Parsons like a sick factory. To beef up sales, Roberts fanned fast-talking admissions men throughout the Midwest and the East. He freely discounted freshman fees and even more freely solicited flunkees from other colleges. He welcomed high school graduates in the bottom half of their classes, and took some who stood dead last. Almost anyone with...
...California's Governor Pat Brown (81 votes), like Ohio's Mike Di Salle and Maryland's Millard Tawes before him, got the brass-knuckle treatment. Snapped Kennedy to a Brown emissary in Washington: "I want you to tell Pat that I need his endorsement and I need it before July 1st." When the Brown man protested, Kennedy cut in: "You tell him I've got to have his endorsement. I stayed out of his state-I could have beaten hell out of him-because you, Brown and the others told me I'd be tearing...
...many respects, ABIGAIL FILLMORE most resembled Pat Nixon. A Baptist preacher's daughter, she was supporting herself at 16 as a schoolteacher, married one of her pupils, a hulking country lad named Millard Fillmore. Abigail continued to teach, vigorously promoted her husband's political career. As the wife of a young Congressman, she was invited to make a public speech-a daring innovation in 1840. Like Pat Nixon, she declined...