Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later plays; yet the telltale stigmata are all here-dread, panic, menace, mocking comic absurdity, the evasive unwillingness of people to level with each other. Except for Edward Flanders, the American cast is often blunt and plodding when it should be sardonic, cutting and athletic, but Pinter nevertheless provides prickly excitement and a tantalizing quota of questions without answers...
Surprising Guts. The campaign meanwhile has been slipping farther into irrelevance. While Stokes gibes at Taft for his monied background, Taft has hardly uplifted the campaign by harping on "carpetbagger" donations to Stokes from "people like Sammy Davis Jr." Nevertheless, the guttersniping has rebounded in Taft's favor, unstarching his early do-gooder image and unlimbering his political muscle. His record as a civil rights advocate is well known, and the unexpected vigor of his campaign has been impressive. "I think Stokes pushed him too far," said a Negro. "Taft has surprising guts...
Though none of the candidates is well known politically, there are three who nevertheless stand out as serious contenders. Joseph L. Alioto, 51, an attorney and self-made millionaire, is, in the faint praise of one observer, "probably the least unqualified." He has been president of the board of education, chairman of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and is well-connected in the business world. Despite that, his name is far from being a household word. When his big, orange-lettered posters began appearing, one voter quipped: "I've heard of Aly Khan and I've heard...
...that most listeners will feel that he might as well just stand up and talk. There are glimpses of bitter earnestness, such as "The hands that are applauding are slippery with sweat/And saliva is falling from their smiles," but the lyrics are set in a muddy context, ill-enunciated. Nevertheless, Ochs is a talented rebel; his instrumentation is far-out; and his songs defy most conventions, including the three-minute rule: some last nearly nine minutes...
...editor of the leftist monthly Liberation, Dellinger visited North Viet Nam last November and met with Ho, was deprived of his passport on his return, but retrieved it from the State Department on a promise not to return to Hanoi. Appointed chairman of the Mobilization Committee, he nevertheless made a second trip to Hanoi this summer. In September, he went to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, where he was one of 41 Americans who parleyed with twelve North Vietnamese officials and a dozen Viet Cong delegates. Dellinger had barely returned from the fruitless "peace conference" when trouble erupted in his own peace organization...