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Competition at Last. Robertson also had a special problem. After decades of reliance on the organization, he received, at best, tepid support from his old allies in this year's campaign. Some Byrd advisers suggested bluntly that Robertson, who was never an important figure in the combine, should follow Old Harry into voluntary retirement. Instead, Banking and Currency Chairman Robertson years' campaigned on the strength of his 20 years' seniority in the Senate. Wearing the traditional white linen suit favored by Old Harry, he stumped the state making florid (and familiar) speeches denouncing the evils...
John Cunningham's Duke is clear but tepid. Adolph Caesar brings a rich voice to the Priest, but his make-believe senility is false. Stephen Pearlman's Antonio exhibits acrocious diction and no comprehension. And how could the director allow him to pass right by Viola-Cesario when exiting in pursuit of the look-alike Sebastian without Antonio's batting an eye? The suspension of disbelief can stretch only...
Sitting on Situs. Nonetheless, Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from...
...trades union convention, Vice President Humphrey shouted buoyantly to the 4,000 delegates: "We Democrats need the labor movement. The President of the United States is your friend, and we are not going to let you down!" But even that ardent love call brought no more than a few tepid claps from the disgruntled labor leaders...
...approach is valid but Olivier overworks it, for his portrayal appears geared primarily to the task of impersonating a Negro. In his accomplished mimicry, there is often too much mammy singer, too little inner man. This lithe warrior defies tepid theatrical conventions, only to emerge as a modern stereotype, quick to violence and so infatuated with himself that his cue for murder seems to be wounded animal pride, not unhinging grief. He has size without tragic stature, brute strength and magnetism without "a constant, loving, noble nature." His ultimate downfall shrinks almost to the level of a squalid domestic intrigue...