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...cope with defeated dreams, not future hopes. The play is fragmented, but the theme is whole. It is the theme that has always possessed Williams-the violated heart-violation by repression, starvation, brutalization, isolation. A brooding sense of aloneness and man's yearning need for human contact is uppermost in Iguana. After the empty self-parody of Sweet Bird of Youth, The Night of the Iguana restores to playgoers the Williams who can create a poetry of mood, language, character and imagination as elemental as earth, air, fire and water. This is perhaps the wisest play he has ever...
...Breakeven. Uppermost in Alexander's mind is the rapid rise of Europe's Common Market, which already has a fat payments surplus and is now in the process of erecting a single external-tariff system. But while the emergence of the Common Market may bring short-term losses for the U.S., it should also bring long-run gains. Hundreds of U.S. firms have exported dollars to Europe to build factories within the Common Market, but these investments ultimately should be returned with interest in the form of repatriated profits. Similarly, the increase in trade between the Common Market...
After the first eight minutes of the game last night at Roberts Center, the 500 spectators in attendance maintained only a statistical interest in the proceedings. The Boston College basketball team was gunning for its third straight 100-point game, and for most of the contest the thought uppermost in nearly everybody's mind was: Would they make...
...unregistered 3,778,000 in New York, for example, could be persuaded or coerced into registering, six or seven out of every ten would pull the Kennedy lever in November.) Back in Hyannisport, Bobby showed the lines of fatigue under his suntan, but he had no time for relaxation. Uppermost in his buzzing mind were the plans for yet another campaign of Kennedy specialists: a road show by a team of political and voting experts that will discuss local and regional problems with political leaders and, hopefully, find solutions. A dozen meetings have been arranged, with forays into Philadelphia, Boston...
...graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that he had three things uppermost in his mind: his religion, his opponent, and a call for American greatness through sacrifice...