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...sunlit surface of this hamlet in its finest hour is clouded by a dark shadow-the bitter split within the Baptist Church over admitting blacks to membership. June Turner, wife of a deacon who opposes this change, talked about the agony to come, and tears slipped from her eyes. Without speaking his name, she blamed Jimmy Carter for pushing their church "into the spotlight, for putting it into politics." She wore no Carter button. Plains has produced a new President for the '70s, but is still fighting a battle...
...presidential debates and, says Small, "they stayed until the end-there was no audience tail-off." Obviously they wanted to know, good or bad. Harris insists that, as never before in political history, the smiles, the thoughts, bad words, verbal goofs have penetrated to darkest ghetto and most remote hamlet...
Readers further learn that Shakespeare stole from Falstaff in other dramas too. Hamlet's elegant admonition, "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," was really first uttered by Falstaffs disreputable pal Bardolph to confuse a policeman in a bawdy house. And that as early as 1459, Falstaff was reflecting: "I think for Hal the whole world was a stage and all the men and women merely players...
...long campaign nears the finish line in every state, city and hamlet, TIME correspondents have found a plethora of hot races and intriguing, more or less new faces. Some of the more fascinating in each category...
...HAMLET WARNING by LEONARD SANDERS 280 pages. Scribners...