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WHETHER or not American politics makes strange bedfellows, it assuredly is making for active, absent ones in election year 1972. Last spring, George McGovern was flying over the Eastern seaboard in a private airplane, headed for a primary campaign stop, when a companion recognized another craft off the wing. "George," he advised, "get to the window. This may be your only chance to see Eleanor the rest of this campaign...
...staff bickering, and an obsession with the impact of polls. In 1970, George McGovern began his campaign stressing issues, especially Vietnam; while last July President Nixon called this the most "issue-oriented" campaign of the 20th century. Yet clarity, precision, and in-depth discussion of issues has been notably absent from the campaign...
...with the highest art and best essays, and do not deign to consider what is best in less-consistent realms of endeavor until it is overvalued by the unthinking others. Aside from that of Charles Thomas Samuels, the film writing Rahv has published has been obtuse: theater is totally absent, television not even acknowledged. Serious literary tricksters (Barth, Gass and Barthelme) who are trying to engage in their own kind of criticism of our language and outworn genres, are barely acknowledged...
Stoppard pushes this and related theses with antic wordplay, inspired zaniness and crackerjack wit. The evening would sag in spots if it were not for Hordern. What might have been simply a caricature of an absent-minded professor emerges as a warmly affectionate portrait of the last living humanist. And Rigg is lovely to look at, especially in the nude, and to listen to as she delivers her lines with a resolute intelligence that seems to unbend the pretzel twists of thought...
...vote to reconsider the August 2 vote firing Corcoran is passed 7-1 with Grahan voting no and Owens still absent...