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Jonathan Livingston Seagull is the warmest, most goodhearted, most tuneful (score by Neil Diamond) piece of moral uplift since the musical version of Lost Horizon. Years hence, scholars may debate the significance of the fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
...world today knows Rubinstein as an ageless wonder, the warmest of musicians, who at the age of 86 can still bring an audience to tears with his blend of drama and poetry. But in the early years of the century he was a Casanova in tails. His seemingly endless list of courtships had begun in his native Poland with a twelve-year-old girl, appropriately named Mania (he was ten at the time). Then came a staggering array of flirtations and affairs...
...trying to fulfill their self-assigned task of "arousing the nation," Monday Clubbers have, among other causes, protested the dropping of Rule, Britannia from BBC concerts in London's Royal Albert Hall and ardently supported the loyalists of Ulster. But the club's warmest concerns have been to rally support for Ian Smith's breakaway white-supremacist regime in Rhodesia and to argue against immigration of blacks and Asians to Britain from Commonwealth countries...
...episodes here, selected from among sketches performed on 161 shows, not only reconfirm the warmest memories, but they revive the kind of deep, continuous and ultimately helpless laughter that is too rarely heard, the kind that makes the eyes water and the mouth slack at the edges from strain. It is laughter that for a time was always within Sid Caesar's power to give...
...best interests of the nation. The nation can ill afford to debate this issue while death stalks the face of Indochina and our nation deteriorates under the worst leadership in our history." At week's end, after crowds in Des Moines and Kansas City, Mo., gave him his warmest receptions of the campaign, McGoyern flew on to Eagleton's home town of St. Louis, where he joined his former running mate and delivered a feeling apologia. "If there were mistakes," he said, "they were honest mistakes of the heart." Dropping his strident tones, McGovern spoke eloquently...