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West Side Story. For never was a story of more woe ... Opens tonight at the Loeb...
Mayors' Woe. Late last week Nixon managed to make his plans to hold down spending sound almost equal in importance to the ending of the Viet Nam War. Greeting families of prisoners of war on Friday, he told them: "Now we are engaged in a new battle, the battle of the budget." Briefing congressional leaders the same day, he asserted: "For my part, I ran on a platform of no higher taxes. If we cannot hold this budget, one of two things will happen. I am ready, willing and able to veto [appropriations bills that push spending higher...
...King enters the room, diners are expected to drop their forks and snap to attention. When he raises his tankard and exclaims "All hail," the guests are expected to return the toast, "Wassail." When his jester leads a chorus of the King's favorite ditty, Immorality Forever, woe to the bloke who fails to sing along...
...repetitive nightmare about the cursed albatross that haunts his fevered imagination: his family, the restive dead. His soap-opera prose alone ought to chloroform any ghost. But somehow O'Neill slings the albatross round our necks and makes us grieve and attend to his tale of fearful woe...
...Woe. Nations, too, prefer what May calls "pseudo innocence." He quotes that beloved Founding Father Benjamin Franklin on the fate of the American red man: "If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means...