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...Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
Austin has also managed to make Engstrom into a real slap-stick figure who does not fit in with the play, G. Quay Quenel does not act the part badly, but the part should have been totally different. That Manders can be taken in by such a buffoon exceeds belief. Etain O'Malley is better as Engstrom's daughter, Regina, especially when she remains sprightly but mute...
...apparent willingness to get a bill at any price, Dillon drew an angry rebuke from liberal Illinois Democrat Paul H. Douglas: "By not having a virile stance in favor of tax reform, you have permitted the reform provisions to be gutted." There was also a partisan slap from Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, a key member of the Finance Committee (see box), who accused Republican Dillon of "subverting the economic liberal policies of the Democratic party at the Washington level." Added Gore: "When the country votes conservative it votes Republican. I don't know...
...they are so self-consciously aware that they are pitiable. Anyone who ever wanted to tear the epaulets off Shirley Temple's Little Colonel will find himself unsympathetic to the doomed child who says: "I can't let my mother go alone, Mister Consul. Whom would she slap when she can't bear it any longer...
Although based on standard and sometimes tired jokes, the songs often had last night's audience roaring with laughter. Particularly successful were "Bureaucracy Calypso," a slap at modern urban government, "Living in the Twilight," which describes the life of the gangster associated with government and has suspicious echoes of West Side Story, and the "Accusatory Bop," a wild rock 'n roll bit in the grand style...