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...Manhattan, Reporter-Researcher Margaret Boeth interviewed " reborn evoked in Greenwich Village - an assignment that evoked memories of her girlhood in Cleveland, Miss. "I haven't seen this kind of hard-rock fundamentalism," she says, "since I used to sit on a ditch bank and watch the traveling, trembling preacher whip up a crowd." When Boeth interviewed Evangelist Arthur Blessitt in New York, she learned that they were from the same part of Mississippi and that Blessitt had once led a congregation in her home town...
...accident that Scott's tripartite ideal is a human being first. His own life, and his intuitive ability to use it at the right time in the right role, is his fundamental resource. As a great actor, he achieves something new in every part?something of himself reborn, fathered by insight, nurtured by skill and imagination. Scott also offers something more. Always, just below the surface, there is an incessant drumbeat of anger. Says Jose Ferrer, who directed him in The Andersonville Trial on Broadway: "It's a concentrated fury, a sense of inner rage, a kind of controlled madness...
...echoed: "We're getting our heads straight"; "We're getting our stuff together"; "We're getting into radical theory." Organizational work is approaching orgiastic proportions: Marxist groups, Maoist groups, Trotskyite groups, socialist groups and plain old American-style Communist groups are all flourishing. Old Left intellectualism has been reborn, mainly in the form of the Young Socialist Alliance, with thanks to a helping hand from J. Edgar Hoover, who labeled the 5,000-member Y.S.A. "the largest and best-organized youth group in left-wing radicalism...
...Theodore H. White (The Making of The President), Nixon faces the same temptation to transcend the law of the land. Before a rehearsal of his first play, Caesar at the Rubicon, at Princeton University's McCarter Theater, owlish politicophile White, 55, noted that Caesar's problems "were reborn with the American Constitution. We were the first republic under the law since Rome." Within five years after crossing the Rubicon, said White, "Caesar had become dictator and god, master of the world. He had placed himself outside the law. It is a temptation, I think, all Presidents...
Gresser chisels directly into wood and stone "the struggle and the supreme dignity of life." His work is pain-staking, the quiet evolution of the sculpture reveals a complex set of emotions. One piece, a woman entitled "Madonna Reborn," remained unfinished for a decade. "I stopped work on it and could not resume until I regained my feeling for the feminine form," says Gresser...