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David Starr Klein commands the second act as Azdak. He revels in the part, establishing a comfortable rapport with his audience from the very beginning. His complacent irony is the luxury of someone in on the Big Joke of our pretensions, so much so that he would threaten us if he weren't such a self-proclaimed slob. Even if he weren't backed by such solid supporting characters, Klein would make the second act worth staying for, though he does have a tendency to get so wrapped up in Azdak that he jumps on his cue lines...
...point of view, Chicken has several drawbacks: he is surly, he is vengeful and he is black?"a mistake" claims Jeb, "of my father's." Like two halves of the same soul, the siblings are rivals for the property and the woman, while outside a summer flood seems to threaten all creation. At last Chicken exhumes the ultimate family skeleton, and Jeb, the levee and the film simultaneously collapse...
...expansionist economic and political orientation in order to achieve two crucial objectives: (1) to provide a minimum standard of living for all Americans in a non-socialist but planned redistribution of wealth; and (2) to avoid the possibility of being drawn into foreign wars which did not directly threaten our survival. By renouncing Cordell Hull's trade-expansion policy, the United States could cut back on expensive military and naval forces which could not defend our commercial interests abroad in any case). We would then be free to choose whether or not to intervene in foreign disputes on grounds...
...Some of Nixon's men are emerging at last as fairly colorful in their business hours as well. White House Aide Clark Mollenhoff's attack on opponents of Judge Clement Haynsworth on a Washington television program was so vehement that it caused one of the participants to threaten a libel action. Mollenhoff's repeated fulminations led to a Washington jape about the "Mollenhoff Cocktail-you throw it and it backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers. Everywhere...
Mathias began to get pointed mail and telephone calls from his home state. "It's not so much what they say as the way they say how extreme their disappointment will be. You get the party functionaries who threaten party revolt. You get the man who does business with the Government-and it may well be that he was instigated by someone in the Administration to call." The implication is that the man's business might be taken away if Mathias voted negatively. "A Maryland applicant for a position in the Administration was told that there...