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Public Detail. When Ike had his ileitis attack in June 1956, there were not many Americans who could boast that they had an inflammation of the lower intestinal tract in the family. It was potentially dangerous in view of the President's heart condition. Yet, curiously enough, Ike seems not to have been unduly disturbed by the attack or his operation. In the second, concluding volume of his presidential memoirs (The White House Years, 1956-61: Waging Peace), out this week, he devotes only one paragraph to that illness, recalls: "Strangely enough, although I was truly miserable for several...
...sociological tract on the mechanization of modern middle-class sex, Charlotte's switching between husband and lover like a couple of television channels gets a little redundant. But Godard's clear-eyed camera work−studying the play of character on a talking face, catching the choreography of everyday life−is worth watching. So is the sly felinity of Actress Macha Meril...
Every weekday morning for the past three years, New York Philharmonic Managing Director Carlos Moseley, en route to his office, has walked across a vast open tract of Central Park known as the Sheep Meadow. Decided Moseley: "This is the place for an enormous Philharmonic party." A fine idea, orchestra officials agreed, music for the masses and all that. But will the people come? Last week, in the first of a series of 12 evening outdoor concerts, they got their answer. The people started arriving at noon, toting picnic baskets and blankets. By late afternoon, long processionals-young couples...
Furthermore, Mayor Collins - until then a strong supporter of the Aliston BRA project - said that he had "recommended to the Boston Redevelopment Authority that it re-open the question of the best use of the six-acre tract after it has been cleared and that it reconsider as well the method of selecting a developer." (Italics supplied.) He continued that the recently enacted Housing Act of 1965 "makes it possible to achieve lower rents than were possible when the project was first planned." He proposed a blue-ribbon committee be selected to evaluate the best use of the land...
...venomous pupil, perhaps because Sheean's Nero is not a character at all but a dim amal gam of perfumes, painted lips and libido. In all, Sheean has taken one of history's wise men living in one of its most scandalous eras and produced a dry tract full of petty non sequiturs...