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...first parliamentary assault on the government as Britain's new Tory leader. It was something of a disappointment - a long and factual speech that even his supporters found some what on the dull side. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who loves the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate, poured scorn on the Tories, dubbed Heath as "this Sir Galahad" who, he claimed, had deliberately misled the voters last year about the nation's economy...
GETTYSBURG, PA., Summer Theater: The Playboy of the Western World is a timid young Irishman whose moments of rebellion earn him first adulation and then scorn. John Synge's 40-year-old comedy remains an ironic and telling tale...
...morning") one certainly gets a fine sense of trivia. Shortly we discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment displaying anti-bourgeois scorn for neatly preserved possessions (their sofa is an automobile seat) and a flair for camp (wall cartoons of a trotting Flash Gordon and of Batman holding a tiger and wheezing "Whew!"). They talk like suburban eighth graders about Camus and psychoanalysis and how their generation doesn't know itself...
Rump Affair. His aim, Buckley said, was "to give the people of New York an opportunity to vote for a candidate who consults without embarrassment the root premises of the conservative philosophy of government." He reserved his coldest scorn for Lindsay, accused him of turning the G.O.P. into "a rump affair" that is "no more representative of the body of Republican thought than the Democratic Party in Mississippi is representative of the Democratic Party nationally." Lindsay, he said, "having got hold of the Republican Party, now disdains the association, and spends his days, instead, stressing his acceptability to the leftwardmost...
...found it easy to steer a middle course between East and West. His job has not been made easier by the activities of his own Vice President, Oginga Odinga, who admits that "Communism is like food to me" and has been trav eling through the countryside heaping Red-tinged scorn on Kenyatta's ties with the West...