Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is an open letter announcing esthetic impotence, and its dramatic distress signal is that of the faint bleep of an SOS sent from an enemy-occupied country. Staggering about the hotel bar, the painter hero (Donald Madden) spends all of his stage time in an unrelieved agony of mental and physical disintegration that ends in death. His bitchy, sex-starved wife (Anne Meacham) is addicted to plaintive monologues and a frustrated effort to seduce the Japanese barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire...
...major television networks coolly tuned out Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare in 1966. But the medical fellow they really wanted to get rid of-and could not -is a real-life Dr. Killjoy by the name of Donald Frederickson. Dr. Frederickson is a 34-year-old public-health official who began campaigning two years ago to change the TV image of cigarettes. Among his proposals: "admired characters" like Johnny Carson should stop smoking on camera, and TV series heroes should decline cigarettes offered them during climactic scenes. That, said Frederickson, might help dissuade the 4,000 young Americans who begin...
...DONALD BLOCH'S play, which opened last night at selected locations around the Eliot House dining hall, has absolutely no exposition, begins in fact with a vow to ignore the past and sticks by it. The future is another quantity ignored, and the play between turns out in consequence to be, among other things, smartly constructed. Instead of handing us tiresomely detailed, hideously flawed cases for treatment, Mr. Bloch throws out two empty characters and spends his nine scenes in an effort to make them worth knowing. He has set and filled in the process two hypothetical criteria...
Michael, the party's host, it 30-ish, charming and witty. As the play opens, we find him talking with his friend Donald, as shy Cornell drop-out, about their respective analysts, over-loving mothers and financial blues. Gradually they reveal the defense mechanisms that help them survive in a world where "failure is the only thing with which [they] feel at home." For Donald, the only escape is to go to the library and read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays alive with the help of self-deprecating wisecracks ("Well, one thing you can say about...
Last week he finally announced his man: Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld. Presiding over OEO's burnt-out shell seemed to be an extremely un promising job for an ambitious, attractive young Republican like "Rummy" Rumsfeld. He would be giving up one of the safest seats in Congress: his constituents had sent him to Congress four straight times. But, argued the White House, running OEO will be only a portion of his responsibility. Rumsfeld will also have full Cabinet status and be a presidential assistant (salary: $42,500, equal to congressional pay). Finally, he will sit on Pat Moynihan...