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Members of PANIC also chided Councillor Robert Moncrieff, chairman of the Council's subcommittee on cable television, for not issuing an official report on the city's recent hearings on the issue...
Most of the candidates for City Council, including the progressive Cambridge Civic Association slate, liberal incumbents Barbara Ackerman and Robert Moncrieff, independent candidates, and Socialist Workers Party candidates showed up for the 'illegal' meeting and spoke to a group in the street. Five councillors were conspicuously absent: incumbents Thomas Danehy, Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan, Alfred Velluci, and Thomas Coates. It is clear from this incident that these candidates do not want to discuss in public the present state of the government they run. The interests of these same politicians are served by Cronin's decision...
School committeeman Daniel J. Clinton also received a boost-an additional 140 votes-from the redistribution. Clinton, who ranks seventh with a total of 1766 votes, seems to be moving toward election, as do challenger Robert Moncrieff (fifth with 2112 votes) and incumbent Barbara Ackormann (sixth with 1826 votes...
...male leads are miscast--Michael Erhardt as Moncrieff only slightly, and Thomas Babe as Worthing more seriously. But both overcome this and emerge as the most dependable members of the nine-man cast, Erhardt generally underplays his outrageous lines, and Babe doesn't have...
...classic 1895 comedy of manners to the screen for the first time, is a highly stylized, dryly amusing production. The British-made film is faithful to Wilde's play, which is a triumph of triviality: Playboy Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) loves Gwendolen Fairfax (Joan Greenwood), whose cousin, Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison), loves Jack's ward, Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin). But because of Jack's ignoble habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Earnest and Algy's adoption of Earnest's name and wicked reputation to speed his courtship of Cecily, both girls believe them...