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CZECHOSLOVAKIA, the little country that is trying the difficult and perhaps impossible task of combining Communism with freedom, is continuing to stir up resentment and alarm in its Communist neighbors. Russia and the more orthodox Communist states of Eastern Europe, in turn, are putting enormous pressure on the Czechoslovaks to restrain their liberating zeal. It is a conflict that could lead to tragedy...
...building for hay storage and pigs). Then they invited 400 guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south and of the stir created whenever a Kennedy came to call at Wexford, the citizens of Ulster could at last display a superfamily of their...
...oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about...
Futz! is less likely to stir the senses than raise the gorge. Rochelle Owens' play is a sad saga of bestiality. Her preposterous moral is that people are beastlier than animals, particularly to a boy who prefers to make love to a sow. Cyrus Futz (John Bakos) loves Amanda, his sow, like a wife. A nympholeptic human pig gets jealous and goads the village rednecks into slaying the boy, preparatory to killing Amanda...
Robert Kennedy's curious ability--and desire--to stir the enthusiasm of black people, young whites, and other traditionally dispossessed groups may very well accelerate radical changes...