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...onetime Pillsbury executive, Maryland Congressman and Republican national committee chairman, Morton, now 57, has proved an able administrator. His first priority was to attempt to tighten up the elephantine, 70,000-employee department. He also brought in bright young management talent. "Our thrust hasn't been in dramatic statements," Morton maintains, "but rather to create the administrative means of getting things done...
...blacks. He disowns the Lincoln Center production of The Duplex as a "coon show," though nothing in the script indicates that the spirit of the play has been violated. As a slice-of-life playwright, Bullins carves out zesty evocations of drunken parties, card-playing cronies, the sudden sensual thrust and parry of the sexes. When he can carve out the palpitating hearts of blacks who epitomize and yet transcend blackness, he will have written the play he is so promisingly aiming...
...have taken the place of Redux as his main output for 69-70. Based on the life of James Buchanan--interestingly enough, the only president to have been born and raised in Pennsylvania--the novel is meant to explore the tensions of a man of personal integrity thrust into a position of national power at a time when his actual strength was limited--and threatened by the cataclysms of pre-Civil War America. Buchanan had successfully risen above personal traumas in his love-life and in a tawdry Pennsylvania political arena: he got caught in the mire of an unfinished...
...going to argue that perhaps some of these things were not also involved. What I am going to argue with is that these things determined the central thrust of that movement, because it's not the way I've seen it nor the way I've known...
That kind of remark is going out of fashion, but the mark of Adam is still quite visible. Anthony Burgess, a first-rate commentator on fiction, still "gains no pleasure from serious reading that lacks a strong male thrust and a brutal intellectual content." Louis Auchincloss once paused in the course of a critical essay on Jean Stafford to express awe that she was resourceful enough to hail...