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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tolerance: Kennedy is widely regarded as a high-minded crusader for religious tolerance, fighting the battle against prejudice that Al Smith lost in 1928. His arguments against using religion as a yardstick in choosing a President are eloquent and moving. Yet he has not hesitated to play on the theme that the Democratic Party might lose the Catholic vote to the Republicans unless he is the presidential nominee-a suggestion that the New York Times's Washington Correspondent James Reston called "blackmail...
...voice that has not been heard aloud since Jack Kennedy went into public life is the managerial Boston baritone of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 71, father of the clan, who has deliberately chosen the role of public silence to play down the fact that he is the dominant force in making the remarkable Kennedy family what it is today...
...intense, the clan swarm like bees around a queen when one member makes a louder hum than the others. Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path to the white marble Senate Caucus...
Only two important shortcomings characterize this production. The first is the total excision of the first scene, which gives the play its title--doubly inexcusable since the text of the play is, except for The Comedy of Errors, the shortest in the entire canon. The second is the lack-luster playing of the king and his companions (save Richard Waring's well-spoken Antonio), of whom Loring Smith's Alonzo and O. Z. Whitehead's Sebastian are embarrassingly inept. Still, the show is a striking success for William Ball in his directorial debut for the Festival...
...fitting for Tweifth Night. Director Jack London, who has previously shown a penchant for gimmicking up his productions, has really gone 'round the bend this time, and must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added the subtitie "or, What You Will" to this play. At any rate, London has turned Tweifth Night into a comedy of errors. Imagine, if you can, a neoionic tempietto on stage right, with a hideous stained-glass dome (this is Orsino's lair; no wonder he says. "The appetite may sicken, and so die."); and, on the left...