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...South, And dark and true and tender...
...Even as he protests, he recognizes the danger of too much Southern identification; smoothly, in recent months, Texan Lyndon has changed to Western plumage.* Now, with a speech in Pennsylvania and two more at week's end in Boston, he was in position to determine how true and tender might be the North toward a presidential bird named Lyndon Johnson...
...Harrisburg's barn-big Zembo Temple, where 6,000 Democrats had shelled out $100 each for Johnson, roast beef, ice cream and the 48-piece Hegeman String Band, the reception was sweetly tender. The Hegeman String Band strummed Deep in the Heart of Texas. During the preliminaries, beaming Lyndon table-hopped through the hall and on through the two tents pitched to handle overflow diners, shook hands, cracked jokes ("You discovered oil here in Pennsylvania, but we get all the blame"). Boss Lawrence courteously introduced his guest as "the man who guided through the Congress the programs upon which...
...votes) is for whomever Dave Lawrence and Philadelphia Boss William Green want, and they are for the time being glad-handing everybody. But if Democrats eventually called for a compromise candidate, Lyndon had proved two points: 1) he was available, and 2) in the dark and true and tender North the middle-roading Texas swallow blended with the foliage very nicely...
Newark-born Philip Roth, 26, onetime English instructor at the University of Chicago, is a Jew himself and writes of Jews with an absorbing ambivalence of hate and love. Author Roth's broadly farcical stories, The Conversion of the Jews and Epstein, are too heavyhanded; but his tender passages between young Jews in love are often a delight, and his set pieces-weddings, multiple-course dinners, the frequent inability of Jews and gentiles to understand each other though using the same language-have style and the outrageousness of life itself...