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...Nest of Traitors." Diefenbaker survived the 1962 election with a minority government, but relations with the U.S. steadily worsened when he refused to keep his nuclear-defense commitments. At last, just before the 1963 elections, Diefenbaker's Cabinet revolted...
...Newman reports the scene, Diefenbaker raged at this "nest of traitors," pounded the table and demanded that all his supporters stand up. When nine ministers remained seated, he was stunned. Then he turned away muttering, "I resign...
...Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman, hinges on a duel in a loony bin, and the play seems almost as disturbed and disturbing as its setting. Ward Nurse Ratched (Joan Tetzel) is a kind of female Fu Manchu with incredibly sweeping authority. If a patient steps out of line, she punishes him with electric shock treatments...
Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism. Wasserman intends the insane asylum as a metaphor for the world. But instead of cracking sick jokes, he ought to have tried for outright theater-of-the-absurd. The play gains in tension what it loses in triteness by linking Nurse Ratched's oppression of the patients to her sexual repression of herself...
...paraded outside How to Succeed and Subways Are for Sleeping because there were no Negroes in either cast. Now David Merrick, who produced Subways, is putting token Negroes into his new productions, 110 in the Shade (one Negro in the chorus) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (three Negro bit parts). There were only 20 shows in all of Broadway and off Broadway last season in which parts were filled by Negroes when whites could have done the job. The number of Negroes in these so-called integrated roles has not significantly increased this year...