Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. A posthumous appreciation of the poet and critic, written by his friends, most of them eminent writers whom he served as unofficial custodian of artistic conscience...
...spokesmen said they feared that the terrors of the deadpan, we're-here-on-the-scene reporting would send the public into the streets screaming as did the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Charged Director Peter Watkins, "The BBC was really afraid that the truth about the effects of nuclear war would result in a massive protest to ban the bomb...
...exposés became too controversial for WXYZ and Gordon was eased off the air. But a change in management brought him back on a five-minute radio show that is still running. Since then, Gordon has found out that Wayne County Sheriff Peter Buback was illegally selling raffle tickets for his own re-election campaign committee. Buback has since been indicted by a grand jury, is now awaiting trial. Topping off Gordon's electronic exposure of peccadilloes, Basil Brown, chairman of the state-senate judiciary committee, publicly confessed to alcoholism and numerous drunk-driving arrests on Gordon...
...idea I want to get rid of," said Theatrician Peter Ustinov, 46, "is that of Actor Ustinov coming in to save a fragile bauble-a script by Writer Ustinov." By way of making his point, Ustinov is looking on as his new play, Halfway Up the Tree, opens this season in five productions in four countries in three languages-and he won't have a role in any of them. Lest he seem totally idle, he will direct the New York version, hop over to London occasionally to watch Sir John Gielgud direct that company, shove on to France...
...Israeli relatives. Instead, Jewish characters talk endlessly about history and suffering, Catholics indulge in petty lies and machinations. One Jewish character says wisely: "Better he be a good French Catholic than a neurotic Israeli Jew," but only one priest knows right from wrong. Though modeled on St. Peter, he proves to be papier-mache instead of rock...