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Some People, Places, & Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel could easily turn out to be a misnomer. If the title is accurate, it would be good news, for Author Cheever is in danger of getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future to drop "all lushes," but The Scarlet Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled...
West Berlin's bouncy Mayor Willy Brandt, 47, has been picking up pointers from the career of Jack Kennedy. Last week, as he pushed his campaign to oust octogenarian West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Socialist standard-bearer confessed that his attractive wife, Rut, was expecting a third child just about election time...
...second play to be produced), and its only interest is historical. Those whose admiration for the later Miller plays is unbounded (I am not among that number), will in all likelihood enjoy it. I sympathize with Miller's often stated intention--to remove Broadway from its current rut by writing "public" plays (the word is one of Miller's favorites) which enlarge the intimate psychological drama by treating important social issues--but I find his plays themselves, except for a few flashes of powerful dialogue and a few beautifully contrived scenes, dull...
According to Lynch, the next step towards visual planning on a large scale is to form ad hoc committees of people with various backgrounds. By attempting to communicate with each other such committee may devise the graphic language needed to lift urban designing out of the stereotyped rut. They would also indicate the general form a city's development should take, be asserted...
...attitude, about the necessity of progressivism versus desirability of retaining the status que, is reflected in the Democratic Party organization even more than in the Republican. Several leading Democrats have their doubts about Meyer (although there is a hard core of Meyer workers, like those who work through the Rut land headquarters, who are with...