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PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another shlemiel, but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent...
...failures might have been predicted from his past record and his campaign statements. What could not have been anticipated is his erratic performance as an administrator. Few men know Washington better than Nixon, and few place a higher premium on order. The President retains his image of methodical competence. Yet the Administration appears in many ways to be maladroit and insensitive. More and more, comments TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, "there is an aura of ineptitude growing here that could spread to the nation. There is a growing feeling in Washington that Nixon and his men cannot...
...Presidential elections, Richard M. Nixon won by putting together a coalition of his "forgotten Americans"--Southerners, Mid-Westerners, and middle-class people everywhere concerned about what they felt was a decay of American standards. The kind of policy changes New Politicians want will first require defeating the Nixon coalition. Yet this coalition may be hard to beat, particularly if Nixon is able to extricate the United States from Vietnam with at least a minimum of grace before the next Presidential election...
...beat the Nixon coalition will require another coalition--probably one centering about minority groups, the middle class intelligensia, and those workers who cannot bring themselves to foresake old Democratic loyalties for George Wallace or Nixon. Yet the New Politics ethic--stressing as it does principle--hardly lends itself to the task of building alliances--a job which most often requires pragmatic trade-offs of the kind which reformers tend to detest...
...best number, though, belongs to an actress who works so hard at it, she almost makes you believe she can't sing. Don't believe it. From her first words as Meg Dillon, the caretaker's mistress, Sheila Hart is in character as a woman (Meg) relaxed and yet confident as she consciously plays ringmaster to the living theatre that is her brothel. In just a few seconds, she similarly includes the audience in her barrage of insults and confidences. Her bitter ballad near the end of the second act, where she is backed by the male members...