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...Your Man of the Year is representative of all that was America in 1967-petty and grand tyranny, deceit, hate, corruption, militarism, violence of every sort, and the ulcerous pursuit of power and money. A splendid choice...
...Moynihan deplored Bishop Donegan's decision to stop work on St. John's. "Three summers of rioting and out goes 50 years of zoning," he said. "Twenty centuries of Christianity and we conclude that in a time of moral crisis we will cease work on the most splendid place of worship ever conceived in the city. The retreat from magnificence has gone on long enough...
...frequently failed where another President with superior powers of persuasion might have succeeded. His inability to convince either Congress or the nation of the need for a tax increase is one example. When the Detroit riots erupted last summer, Johnson had a splendid opportunity to rally the nation. Instead, he took a safe, legalistic and patently political approach, delaying the dispatch of federal troops until Michigan's Governor George Romney, a potential rival in 1968, was ready to admit that he had lost control of the situation. Johnson's follow-up actions were no more impressive. "Here...
ADAM BOOKOUT, by Louisa R. Shotwell (Viking; $3.95). Going the other way, a splendid story of an Oklahoma farm boy's welcome in a Brooklyn public school...
...eight and almost won a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest at 12. Now 19, Portland has made her London acting debut in a revival of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, playing-of all things-a puritanical little prig. The critics thought she was splendid, and so did Papa James, who announced that henceforth "my ambition is to be known as Portland's father...