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...Robb K. Burlage, a graduate student of economics, also addressed the Cabot Hall group, stating that the problem of discrimination "probably must be solved in Mississippi and in North Carolina before it can be solved anywhere else in this country...
...Close of Chicago's Second City: "If Teddy wins. Laos won't be the only country with three princes." Columnists were critical. "Make no mistake about it," wrote Scripps-How-ard's Richard Starnes, "Teddy Kennedy has mortgaged his brother's Administration." Asked Inez Robb: "Don't you think that Teddy is one Kennedy too many?" On primary day, Editor Jonathan Daniels of the strongly pro-Kennedy Raleigh News and Observer wrote: "Whatever happens in Massachusetts today, the implications of Ted Kennedy's campaign will not help the President, the Democratic Party...
Commedia dell'arte features abound in this play, and director Samuel Hirsch and costumer Phil Robb were quick to emphasize the connections. It would of course be too much to expect the players to have evolved a really consistent style of ensemble comedy in a few weeks, but the current production is more than adequate, and three of the performances are top-notch. (I do, however, miss in the updated translation the wonderful old repertory of varied expletives that pepper the text...
...journalistic specialty, has managed to find a place and a style her own. Quite by coincidence, Inez herself produced another reminder of her style last week with publication of Don't Just Stand There! (David McKay Co.; $4.95). A collection of her columns, the book suggests that Columnist Robb not only wears well, but brings to her specialty an admirable energy and skill. Columnist Robb's Irish blue eyes see life, both high and low. with the undazzled and slightly bemused vision that makes her column appetizing fare to readers of 132 dailies...
...look as if they had just been blown out of a wind tunnel"), hitting back at the birds ("There ought to be a law that makes pigeon feeding a crime"), or taking a good-natured swipe at the opposite gender ("Man is indeed the weaker sex, worse luck"), Inez Robb interprets the world she roams with an inexhaustible vivacity that can make her competitors' columns read like the telephone book...