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LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (81). To see a splendid revival of the finest play ever written by a U.S. dramatist ought to be a sufficient lure, in and of itself. O'Neill painted an enduring portrait of his own tragic family history, using the primary colors of love, anger and compassion. As the mother, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a performance that is etched in the bloodlines of life...
Without any declaration of war, this flood of mostly old people, women and children can wreck India's precarious economy. What a splendid bonus to rid yourself of some 5,000,000 unwanted citizens and make your arch enemy, India, pay the price for your "internal" follies...
Eventually, he would pace his bedroom far into the night reflecting on the dying Americans and Vietnamese. Sensing the shift in mood, Columnist Joe Alsop pronounced him a splendid "defense minister" but lacking the innate toughness required in a "war minister." After McNamara appeared at a congressional hearing in summer 1967 and criticized the bombing policy as futile, Johnson griped that he had gone "dove," and arranged for him to be appointed president of the World Bank...
...around us was Harvard, its self-assurance as great as ever, its institutions as splendid: and we looked at its gleaming buildings and its immaculate potentates and felt that perhaps we cannot trust ourselves at all until we have learned from these men and these buildings how to think and to feel, that we are very small and our desires infantile and unattainable-that what we think we want is an illusion, that our desire to change is folly...
Characteristically, the new volume is an elaborate paperchase. Within it, the actual chess puzzles, witty and elegant, throw an intentionally false scent. Nabokov nudges the reader shamelessly with a list of virtues that characterize chess problems "and all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity." Clearly the reader is supposed to pursue these clues and come to the conclusion that Nabokov approaches art as a sterile, chesslike intricacy. It is, however, a good general rule (discernible in the only good novel ever written about chess, Nabokov's The Defense), that chess has no relation to anything...