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...There is," he said, "an ebb and flow in human affairs which at rare moments brings the complex of human events into a delicate balance. At those moments, the acts of government may indeed influence, for better or for worse, the course of history. This is such a moment in the life of the nation. This is the moment for the Senate." So saying, Mansfield moved that his colleagues "proceed to the consideration" of H.R. 7152, a 55-page bill that embodies the most meaningful civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. At last the Sen ate's civil rights debate...
AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong and the wrongs he did them. The play's closeness to Miller's life belongs more properly to exhibitionism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...
AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong, and the wrongs he did them. The play's close ness to Miller's life belongs more properly to voyeurism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...
...just when Harvard's basketball fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest ebb of the season, the quintet produced a dazzling 20-minute exhibition of almost flawless play which routed the Lions...
...after it was won everything seemed anticlimactic to King. When the sit-ins and freedom-ride movements gained momentum, King's S.C.L.C. helped organize and support them. But King somehow did not seem very efficient, and his apparent lack of imagination was to bring him to his lowest ebb in the Negro movement...