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...American Cousin", the play at which Lincoln was shot. Lowell Swortzell's adaptation has as one of its main character the watchman at the Ford Theater. This character serves as a narrator, describing the events that took place on the day that Lincoln was shot. Within this framework "Our American Cousin" was presented as a series of flashbacks to the performance and a rehearsal allegedly held earlier in the day. In the midst of this historical grab-bag, it seemed occasionally as though director Nancy Swortzell (Mr. Swortzell's wife) had lost sight of the play. This was unfortunate because...
Thus the suburban counterpoint leaps forward in optimistic measure, creating a new framework for the American theme. True, as in every place, every suburban husband wishes he earned more money, every mother with young children wishes' she had more help, small boys wish there were fewer days of school, small girls wish there were fewer small boys, and babies all wish there was no such thing as strained spinach. Nevertheless, there is scarcely a man or woman living in all those hills and groves beyond the cities who does not sing with Martial: Rtis mihi dulce sub urbe...
Until such unfortunate time as we might cease to be a believing nation, we should have the right to expect political leaders to believe in God and in some framework surrounding this belief. This is not to deny the unbeliever his political due, but demands that he be extremely capable and honorable to merit consideration. BOB COONS Chicago Heights...
...high mark (of 85 hr. 23 min.) by rattling off about 1,000,000 words in no less than 125 hr. 31 min. And Lyndon Johnson, working furiously day and night to create a unified front and a workable bill, had to continue laboring within a complex framework made more difficult by his own presidential ambitions and by his desire to help his Southern friends retire gracefully from their lost cause. Most of Johnson's colleagues agreed, though, that when the U.S. Senate finally turns out its civil rights bill this year, the chief architect of victory will have...
...assure peace, the U.S. must also work toward the long-range goal of "general disarmament." Herter made it clear that he saw no possibility of reaching general disarmament through bilateral negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Instead, he offered a distant goal of global disarmament within a world framework of "universally accepted rules of law," backed up by an international court and international armed force...