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...finally added as a Senate amendment to the House-passed Social Security amendments, thus by-passing the Ways and Means Committee, though it failed to be passed after that. At the same time, however, the Becker (school prayer) amendment, which would unquestionably have passed if it had gotten to the floor, was bottled up in the Judiciary Committee by New York liberal Emmanuel Cellar. After the initial uproar and intense agitation for the amendment had died down, Cellar held hearings on the bill and got the establishment-constitutionalist and more responsible church leaders--who had been slow to begin exerting...
...Here in Boston, a bad situation has gotten even worse. The Cafe Orleans tried some jazz on an experimental basis, but found it lost money every time. A high cover charge at the Jazz Workshop has resulted in audiences who are not really jazzlovers, and consequently performers play down to the audiences. (Jazz musicians are notoriously intolerant of audiences they dislike. Charles Mingus has been known--at college concerts--to do pushups on the keyboard and play "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" straight.) And even Connaly's, which has been the best place in Boston for a long time, featured...
Durham and Jones feel that the scarcity of Negroes in Western fiction and drama is becoming more a matter of historical ignorance than of outright prejudice. Consumers of Westerns have gotten soused to an all-white West that writers and directors are afraid to shock them with the truth. "They feel that the accurate representation of the Negro's role in the opening of the West would paradoxically seem to be a falsification of history...
...benefit performance of month's Eastward Ho, and the HDC to mount a special Treason Sunday night, when the Loeb is dark. Apparently the word gotten around...
...with Don Marquis's archy. Most readers resolve these by regarding him as a type of masculine lady bug, and a director would probably gain little by probing the entomological implications of the creature's identity. But still, the interpretation of archy determines how much dramatic mileage can be gotten from archy and mehitabel...