Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, one can always depend on the Loeb for meticulous sets and costumes. This time they are executed with the usual expertise by Randall Darwell and Tom Owen respectively. Still, pretty clothes aren't enough to resuscitate what Goldsmith saw as the dying muse of comedy. There are occasionally lively moments in the current Loeb production, but for the most part it is like attending the sick bed of a lingering old grandam...
...Pius II-who wrote his own treatise on venery under his Christian name, Aeneas Silvius-all enthusiastically rode to hounds. And while papal edict forbade monks to hunt, the church gave its blessing to the chase by proclaiming Hubert, the 8th century Bishop of Liege who saw Christ's image on a stag's brow, its patron saint...
Cyril, you better run if you want to catch it, because I don't think it's going to last too long. There were people actually booing when I saw it. The wretches...
Confounded once more by a CIA coup, which deposes his friend Demasiado, he suddenly sees his carefully dedicated life about to be destroyed by political duplicity. Fleetingly, the U.S. Embassy becomes a symbol of the blind arrogance and wastefulness of all great powers. "He walked around the corner and saw the Embassy, every light on, the only building on the street with a bulb burning, a beamless lighthouse with all its light shining in on itself...
Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts saw his opportunities. In 1964, when the Republicans nominated him for the Senate, the response was electric. Blacks and white liberals flocked to help him. No matter that his opponent, Endicott Peabody, had been an exceptionally liberal governor, and was the more progressive candidate. Brooke lay back, played the statesman, and won the conservative votes with the liberal support to boot...