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...kind of complete disavowal which can best pave the way for an across the board restructuring of U.S. foreign policy. Humphrey for his part makes the conventional liberal analysis of American society and its ills, and offers the conventional liberal formulas to remedy them. Nixon repeats the stale Republican refrain about high taxes and excessive government spending, and suggests that the good will and resources of private enterprise can somehow substitute for government action on the problems of the cities...
...GLASS BOOTH is a dramatic offspring of the Adolf Eichmann trial, reviving the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity, and the paranoid personality of the archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken...
...Playwright Robert Shaw, the English actor and novelist, has read accounts of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as well as Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Israel and the comments on Hannah Arendt's book. Unfortunately, his play recapitulates the past without transforming it. It raises the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity and the paranoic personality of the archkiller, along with a recital of atrocities. But it offers no fresh illumination...
...Ching, the most strident voice in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hsiao Li, in her late 20s, gained prominence a year ago when she led a Red Guard "investigation team" at Peking University. In the acid-tongued tradition of her mother, Hsiao Li described her alma mater as a "stale pond in which many wang-pa* grow." She is now chief of the editorial committee of the Liberation Army Daily, and the regime has confirmed her importance by listing her among "leading comrades" of the Defense Ministry...
...terror of a seven-year-old Negro child in an adult ward for the mentally ill, or in what Norman Mailer said or did not say to the college students in Austin." Unabashedly liberal and outspoken, the weekly was often exasperating, sometimes wrong, never humdrum or stale...