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...Gutsy Duck. To replace Lodge, who saw U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam rise from 16,000 to 420,000 during his current 19-month tour, Johnson tapped Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, 72. A courtly, starched-collar Vermonter who in 1951 left the sugar industry for diplomatic duty, Bunker is a tall, spare man who is known as a deft negotiator. As Ambassador to Argentina, he dealt with Dictator Juan Peron during a period of rabid Argentine anti-Americanism, had the satisfaction of seeing him exiled. In other troubleshooting assignments, he served as a mediator between Indonesia...
...Santo Domingo, while bombs burst and tempers seethed, the elderly diplomat coolly presided over around-the-clock negotiating sessions that ultimately produced not only a stable, non-Communist government but one of the few free elections in Hispaniola's history. Dominicans nicknamed him "El Pato Macho" (the gutsy duck). "He showed up on the palace steps every morning," says Lyndon Johnson with undisguised admiration, "and held that government together with his bare hands...
...Ibsen, The Wild Duck was something of a dramatic non-sequitur. In it he consciously defied the vital premise of much of his earlier (and later) work; that truth must inevitably conquer falsehood. Ekdal, the central character, has lost both fortune and prestige in a grisly episode involving his father's illegal use of government lumber. The father, a broken man, is surviving on the charity of his guilty old friend Werle, who was also involved in the scandal but was acquitted for lack of evidence. In the last 15 years, both Ekdal and his father have built...
...these deceptions are summed up in the title character, or, if you prefer, title bird. It is a wild duck, but it lives inside. And the question posed by Ibsen's play is whether such an incongruity should not be permitted to last even when it fosters happiness, whether innocence cannot sometimes be desirable...
...Adams House the symbolism is suitably accented. Whenever a character should chance to mention the wild duck, he does so in deeply serious tones. And when Hedvig, the Ekdals' daughter, talks about the duck and the dog which fetched it out of the water, she talks as if, yes, true insight is something known only to youth...