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...BOYS IN THE BAND. Playwright Mart Crowley's characters are first of all wonderfully human. Secondarily, they are homosexual. Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Cliff Gorman lead a sharply honed cast through dialogue of lacerating wit and excruciating humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

Still, as the vice-presidential candidate, his gift for dry wit and understated oratory should appeal to a far wider audience than the New Englanders and big-city Poles who claim Ed Muskie as their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Humphrey's Polish Yankee | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...BOYS IN THE BAND. Playwright Mart Crowley's characters are first of all wonderfully human. Secondarily, they are homosexual. Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey and Cliff Gorman lead a sharply honed cast through dialogue of lacerating wit and excruciating humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 30, 1968 | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural extension of the at titude expressed in his songs, that life both in and out of prison is a kind of sentence to be served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Empathy in the Dungeon | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...there." This modest book is a collection of excerpts from Gardner's speeches and writings, including quotes from his two earlier works, Excellence and Self-Renewal. In it, as he deals with contemporary social problems, Gardner demonstrates a depth of moral vision that is matched by a provocative wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from the Mountain | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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