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...Edith Green and Charles Porter, State Senator Monroe Sweetland, even Maurine Neuberger (who won the nomination to succeed her late husband, Richard E. Neuberger, in the Senate)-were in Kennedy's camp. And this, in the Morse code, was nothing less than high treason. In bitter terms ("a stab in the back," "betrayal of party trust"), he denounced his fellow Democrats, vowed to seek revenge. The wounds will not heal quickly, and Wayne Morse is likely to find himself without political support when he runs for re-election to the Senate in 1962-an inviting prospect for Republican Governor...
...possible." Lesley Ann Brown also wanted to help others: "I would buy an airplane and take up as many friends as I could." James Hough would wait in the garden: "I would pray that it would land in the sea and do no damage." One girl decided to stab herself to death with a carving knife ("It would be quicker that way"). Billy Peart wrote stoutly: "I would make sure we could press the button which would send our rockets back to Russia...
...Needle Stab. After the fashion of Pirandello, Author Gelber takes an ax to the footlights, tries to smash all barriers between the play and its audience. Two characters in The Connection are moviemakers doing an avant-garde film of the supposedly real junkies in their pad, and another is the "author," who loses control of his characters, gets a fix himself and falls in drugged stupor while the actors continue on their own. One actor gestures toward a couple in the audience, says that there are other addicts, "people who worry so much-aspirin addicts, chlorophyll addicts-hooked worse than...
...play makes a needle stab at philosophy and theology. "If man is transparent," one hophead wonders, "like how do you account for his shadow?" Another junky sagely says that there isn't any Big Connection ("I am your man if you come to me. You are my man if I go to you"). And when the connection finally arrives, he is a Christlike Negro all in white, with empathy even for squares...
...best lines of the whole affair. "Perhaps the fault is all mine for deluding myself with hopes of immortal love. I was building a little masterpiece. Then I fell in love with my masterpiece and I married her. I created Callas, and she repaid me with a stab in the back. She was a fat, clumsily dressed woman, a refugee, a gypsy when I met her. She had not a cent nor any prospect for a career. I had to rent her a room at a hotel and had to put up $700 so she could remain in Italy...