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...TAKE IT WITH YOU. The gifted APA repertory company puts a new wrapping on a 30-year-old comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The Sycamore family may not seem hilariously outlandish today, but it is still fondly engaging-a tender nosegay tossed to an earlier age of innocence...
...dialogue is archly mock-Edwardian; the pace, trampolin-bouncy. The sprung rhythms prove complementary, and the cast handle the outlandish fool ery like seasoned farceurs. The show does have its slack and silly moments, but never when Paul Ford is dead center, deadpan and dead earnest, the dourest living master of comic mayhem...
...Outlandish Politics. In a broadside letter of resignation, he called Schneider's decision 1) a "mockery of the Paley-Stanton crusade for broadest access to congressional debate," and 2) a "business, not a news judgment." Moreover, he added, the revised chain of command was an "emasculation" of his authority, a surrender to a man, he contemptuously noted, whose "news credentials were limited in the past to local station operations, with little experience in national or international affairs." In short, it was a stand for principle, and the emotional Friendly included in his letter references to his longtime colleague Edward...
Since Friendly had made such a big case out of a disagreeable administrative decision, Paley and Stanton had to stick with their group V.P., all of which only underscored the absurdity of TV's outlandish office politics. For devotees of television's best work, it was too bad. Fred Friendly, for all his hair-triggery, brought much high-quality programming to television, won many prizes for his documentary work (See It Now, CBS Reports), and helped to make Ed Murrow an event...
Quill's original demands on the Transit Authority were so outlandish that few people took them seriously. In a 76-point package, which he blandly labeled "very modest requests," Quill demanded that the Authority increase the T.W.U.'s contract for 1966-67 by nearly 2,000% over the old one-including an increase of more than $2 per hour, a 32-hour week, and six weeks of vacation after one year on the job (present vacation: five weeks after 25 years). The Transit Authority figured that the package would cost $680 million, or one-fifth of the entire...