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...assassins of WWD who tore into 25-year-old Tricia Nixon had better wake up. She looks charmingly attractive, beautifully wholesome, and deliciously desirable. Another girl the same age wearing the same outfit might look ten years older and disgustingly blase. WWD ate sour grapes, and their teeth are on edge...
...three other articles and a brief poetry section. The poetry in the Journal is another example of how it hopes to play the roles of both an international forum and a workshop for young local writers. Including samples of the work of Caribbean writer Orlando Patterson, whose "Trinidad" and "Sour Roses" open the section, and "Keep the Faith" and "Melting Slush" by Emory West '72, the poetry section is a well-selected representation of the current directions of black verse...
Bumper Sticker. Last week's performance left a sour and uneasy feeling among many Congressmen and others who had been profoundly moved by the previous week's protests by dissident Viet Nam veterans. "The vets left a really strong and favorable impression," said an aide to one of the Senate's most outspoken doves. "But these kids are destroying it." One group that appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reduced Vermont Senator George Aiken, a persistent war critic, to sounding like a right-wing bumper sticker. Advising them that there was no law against leaving...
...Sparkish, Christopher Harding speaks in a falsetto and moves with a flourish which fully exploit the affectations of his role. He offers an excellent contrast to Pinchwife, played by Richard Minturn, who makes his face a sour, frowning mask that states his personality. Pinchwife is as overly protective of his wife's honor as Sparkish is negligent of Alithea's. Keeping his country wife under lock and key. Pinchwife confidently declares, "I understand the town." The audience takes enormous delight when the young, inexperienced Margery defeats the old coot, who thinks himself so wise...
While these sour truths seep in, the old Follies girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...