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...said last week that he had agreed to stay on in the Johnson Administration at least through the November elections. This indicated that Johnson would have the active help of the Kennedy political apparatus, which is strongest in the big cities and industrial northeast -where Johnson figures to be weakest. It also aroused speculation about the future of other John Kennedy intimates. Some educated guesses: > Appointments Secretary Kenny O'Donnell will remain, though he probably will move his base of operations from the White House to Democratic National Committee headquarters. He knows the big cities' bosses, will...
Ruth Caplan, the ingenue, and Joseph Morlan, the sidekick, started with the disadvantage of the two weakest parts in the script. Neither of them managed to conquer this initial problem. Morlan's ill-timed hamming told against him when compared to Martin, and Miss Caplan, who looked remarkably like Romney's Lady Hamilton in one scene, was generally ineffective...
Lambuth despised inert verbs: "To be is the weakest of all verbs because it merely joins two ideas together with a colorless glue." He liked verbs that are "busy doing or making something." Not When Elizabeth was queen, but When Elizabeth reigned. He sought concrete words standing for "material things which may be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or heard." No Lambuth student could write that a man indulged in an act of generosity; he wrote that a man gave a dollar to a tramp. Abstract: He gave vehement and conclusive expression to his anger. Concrete: His fist landed squarely...
...suddenly potent Crimson hockey squad travels down to West Point tonight to meet an Army team whose strength is difficult to assess. The Cadets have won their last three games by a composite score of 29-3, but all against some of the weakest opposition in the East...
These two transitions, around which the play revolves--through no fault of the actors--are not uniformly smooth. The weakest scene in the play involves the transition from fear to calmness in Ill. The script has actor Medearis writhing on the ground in terror at one moment and existentially accepting his fate minutes later. Medearis is asked to change moods with impossible speed, and the scene is unconvincing...