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...tongues and makes ticket scalpers' fingers itch in anticipation. T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party was just such a play. So was J.B. and A Man for All Seasons and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? These plays have one thing in common. They roar through an evening with blazing dramatic pyrotechnics. On the following dawn, the embers of their dubious intellectual premises will scarcely bear analysis...
Vociferous Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci recently called Harvard administrators "conspirators behind ivy walls," causing his audience at a September City Council meeting to stand and roar with approval...
...from both houses of Congress that the President turned and said to his old friend Speaker Carl Albert, "You're wasting good TV time." Later he seemed determined to shake every hand in the House. "You know," Albert told him, the microphones picking up his aside over the roar of applause, "I'm afraid I might have called you Jerry instead of Mr. President last night." The President laughed...
...what cost such sudden prosperity? The question, which began as an ecological whisper, eventually rose to a roar as Maine residents took stock of their land and lifestyle. An oil refinery would bring jobs to poor coastal towns Like Eastport, but a single spill might pollute the water from Canada to Kittery. Land developers could expand the tax base, but the quiet, smalltown shops on Maine's streets might be run out of town by tacky shopping malls...
Nixon's world has shrunk almost to himself, his family and a handful of aides. Cabinet officers and agency heads are allowed in when business demands entry. But there is no camaraderie. In the old days somebody like John Connally could roar and swear at the enemies and tell a few stories to perk up the President. Connally has his own problems now. There was no meeting with the congressional leadership last week. A session with the economic advisers was postponed, then canceled. The bulletin board on which the President's and Mrs. Nixon's schedules...