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...human frailty, a persistent but not shrill hope, if not of heaven, at least of Judgment Day. He was also civilized, witty and endlessly inventive. He could write of himself without being a bore, recording "Thoughts of his own death/ like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," wryly admitting that "Gluttony and Sloth have often protected him from Lust and Anger," and boasting gently that he was not vain "except about his knowledge of metre and his friends...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, chairman of the Government Department, said Tuesday that Moynihan told friends at the Government Department picnic last Sunday that he was "not packing his bags...
...Guccione magazine, of course, is worth nothing without exposed flesh, and Viva has that. In a 15-page color spread about a promiscuous picnic in Old England, the softly lit photos show total female nudity but, surprisingly, the man is as carefully shielded as Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. A 14-page beefcake act by a ruggedly handsome young boxer is beautifully done, but is marred by self-conscious cropping of poses in the locker room and shower...
...mixers and the picnic. You (the men) will probably get sickened by the way some of your female peers will greet you. You (the women) will indubitably vow never again to have dealings with some of the vultures there. But you'll probably all get some sense of the types of kids who came to Harvard with you: you'll be turned off by the unexpected mediocrity of your classmates and simultaneously turned on to wallowing in your new-found confidence...
From the slovenly housewife and third-rate chiropractor in his first Broadway hit, Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), to the commonplace women of the Pulitzer prizewinning Picnic (1953), to the wistful nightclub singer and the cowboy of Bus Stop (1955), to the ordinary family life in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), Inge drew on his own Kansas boyhood for "some very sustaining memories of people in their sad, funny, futile, courageous and frightened ways of meeting life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood...