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Senator Kennedy's well-written and powerful speech and manner made him an attractive liberal candidate in comparison with the much more subdued and wishywashy manner of a Muskie or a Humphrey...
...Francine Gray chosen a different radical subject, her two-year-old book-though well-written and informative-might by now be obsolete. But as it is , her central characters-Philip and Daniel Berrigan-have stirred more interest and controversy from prison than have almost all movement leaders who are still at large. And the Berrigans are only a small-though highly visible-part of a movement which has rapidly grown in strength and significance...
...Washington. But significantly, both demonstrations claim to belong to the class of nonviolent actions, the tactic which Gene Sharp discusses in Exploring Nonviolent Alternatives. The book is a starting-point for a systematic study of the possibilities for nonviolence in political conflicts. Although not terribly well-written, it is a provocative monograph, presenting some interesting ideas which might easily be developed and applied by activist groups in this country...
...Your article on Australia [March 22] is a well-written, well-informed piece of news on current Australian politics. But your heading, "Fall of the Larrikin," is very unfair to John Grey Gorton. He may have some faults and would be quick to admit them, but a larrikin [hooligan], no. Rough-hewn and outspoken, yes. He is a tough, typical Aussie...
Alice Drummond as Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon was articulate, facially expressive, really perfect in the only well-written acting slot in the whole play. She talks glibly about a distant Golden Age when she was young, the air rich with humidity, and her house a more welcome prison. From her current vantage point, she's more like a burlesqued version of Mother Courage, hoarding her mementos, fearing sexual orgies going on in a locked-off room, generally despairing over "these days when dry mouth must kiss dry mouth." When she sinks in quicksand, her passing is no less...