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...late 1943 and later at Yalta. Sensibly enough, Burns makes no extensive effort to justify Roosevelt's misjudgment of the Soviet dictator's reasonableness. He shows the President in private meetings trying to soften up Stalin with mildly anti-British statements and, along with Churchill, helping to wrest from him a few paper concessions about free elections in postwar Poland. At Yalta, though, Burns asserts, F.D.R.'s failure was not the result of ignorance, naivete, illness or perfidy -all of which have been suggested by hostile historians-but of the realities of the power situation and Roosevelt...
...essence, the war began when Moslems in the north attempted to wrest power from the French-placed Christian government of Tombalbaye whom they accuse of having instituted a series of repressive measures...
Candidates receiving UNAF assistance include Joseph P. Duffey, a Democrat seeking to wrest the Party's nomination from Sen. Thomas Dodd, George Rawlings, a Virginia Democrat seeking the seat now held by Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., and Andrew Young, a former aid to Martin Luther King, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to the House from Georgia's fifth district...
Palatable Liberalism. Others offer broader platforms. In Massachusetts, the Rev. Robert Drinan. S.J., 49, is mounting an intensive drive to wrest the Democratic nomination from Representative Philip Philbin, 72, who is seeking his fifteenth term. Drinan's strong antiwar stand and reformist views on other issues have picked up predictable support from Bay State students and youngish voters. But a good many of the district's older residents who might otherwise favor Philbin are finding Drinan's liberal stance palatable because of his Roman collar. Says Drinan, former provost of Boston College and dean...
...scenes in which Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, the King of Naples' drunken jester (slightly overplayed by Dan Hermann), conspire to wrest the island from Prospero's control are especially humorous. Since Bergreen has chosen to direct the play as a comedy, the celebration of Ferdinand and Miranda's marriage in the fourth act, at which Prospero displays his magical powers by creating a host of spirits, is played in a light and frivolous vein, Iris and Ceres reciting their lines like girls in a sixth-grade English class. This parody of the wedding hymn, necessary to maintain the exaggerated acting...