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What seems more than ever necessary is a total re-evaluation of the manner and method in which American foreign policy is conducted.... The misbegotten Vietnam adventure, the result mainly of abysmal political miscalculation, has clearly demonstrated the need to define the confused and often contradictory roles played by numerous American agencies in formulating and executing foreign policy.... Whatever happens in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, and whatever course we chart in Asia in the years ahead, it remains axiomatic that we are going to have to deal with similar situations in the future, not only in Asia but elsewhere...
Beginning his description of last spring, Pusey says that "the distressing events of 1968-69 appear to have represented a culmination (if not yet a final resolution) of a sequence of misbegotten attitudes and events which began to evolve several years back...
...beginning is traveling with a small circus destined for the Old West town of Yellow Back Radio. When the circus gets there, it is met by a band of loving children who have succeeded in driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...
Dear Heart (1965), with Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page and Angela Lansbury, is the story of misbegotten love between a post mistress and a greeting-card salesman...
...current season offered, in addition to A Delicate Balance, two other Albee plays, The Zoo Story and Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Moli...