Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely, there are better ways for a man of God to promote integration than to incite a mob to violence, or throw rocks at law officers, or lie in the way of bulldozers. I only wish that he could have added to his "fierce sense of indignation" a finer sense of spiritual direction...
Instead, the President indicated, the hope of the future must lie in social and moral advances. "I prophesy peace is not only possible in our generation: I predict it is coming even earlier," he said. And he voiced his wish that the next World's Fair would see "an America in which no man must be poor, In which no man is handicapped by the color of his skin or the nature of his beliefs...
...praise Miss Field I am ignoring the fine performances of the rest of the company. Eunice Brandon, as Laura, handles her long scene with Jim O'Connor especially effectively. Her shyness slowly disappears, then returns as she makes the one human contact of her life and loses it. I wish only that she were a bit shier at the beginning of the play so that the transition to the scene with Jim would seem less abrupt...
...glad to see my poem. "The Keepsake," reprinted from my book The Breaking of the Day in your issue of April 9. I wish, however, you had printed it the way I wrote it. I took especial care over the last lines: "Could any man / So burdened not cringe with pride, possessor of / So shinning, so ineradicable a sorrow?" Would you agree that "ineradicable" (my word) does not carry the same meaning as its opposite, "eradicable" (your word)? Peter Davison
Newman and his wife have said that they had left the fake West for some real acting in the legitimate theater. And both are always fun to watch and at times as real as one could wish. But because of Costigan's myopia, no clear Mavis or Emil (or Edward for that matter) ever comes through; the only consistent performance is from Barney, the sheep-dog (played, the program reports, by Patrick, the sheep-dog). And he can't save the show. Baby Want A Kiss some how manages to be as inane as its title...