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...Drop of a Hat revues; of an apparent heart attack; while vacationing in North Wales. Crippled by polio during World War II, the bulky, bearded Flanders performed from a wheelchair, while the spindly, cricketlike Swann hunched over his piano diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences in Britain and elsewhere for twelve years with songs such as Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud and I'm a Gnu, until the pair split...
...essentially that Keynesian policy prescriptions that are failing now. To the Leontiefs and the Galbraiths, this proves freedom is unworkable and we must change the economy again, to a centrally planned socialist economy. This intellectual bluff should be called, because there is no sound basis for this conclusion...
With South Viet Nam's future so shaky, the seven church-related and other private U.S. adoption agencies in the country tried to speed the emigration process. A breakthrough came when Edward Daly, the bluff president of World Airways (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) arranged with the U.S.'s Friends of All Children agency in Saigon to fly 450 orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly...
...more than 110 demonstrators who shouted. "We're not fooled by Harvard's bluff. The Strauch report is not enough," in front of University Hall last week, the final word that came out of the Faculty meeting inside was a bit of a letdown...
WOLFE IS READY to call the bluff. He moved into the art criticism field this month with a long piece in Harper's, called "The Painted Word" and apparently intended to blow the whistle on post 1945 art and its accoutrements. His general thesis is simple the reason modern art is so in comprehensible, the reason it's so hard to imagine why anybody would like it, understand it, or want to buy it, is that the whole show is run by critics who have turned art into an extension of their theories...