Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Monsignor Boza Masvidal, as head of Villanueva University, expelled 17 pro-Castro students for signing a letter claiming that Boza was preparing a plot to close the university, then blame the government. Government agents surrounded Villanueva, searched everyone entering or leaving, including the bishop himself. But this time the church showed no signs of yielding...
...political depths. Possibly, if political issues and aims are not to be truly probed-something not easily done behind footlights-it is just as well they stay general and simple. But in Advise they not only lack thematic point, they even throw a certain haze over the plot...
...Courage, while Jack was convalescing in Florida, was wrongly credited by Drew Pearson with ghosting the book-a charge that was disproved by Sorensen's notes, Kennedy's handwritten drafts, and the assistance of Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford. Pearson later retracted his charges. Sorensen helped Kennedy plot his unsuccessful try for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. Only weeks later they embarked on the long, arduous campaign for the presidency. For three years before Jack Kennedy announced his candidacy he and his assistant stumped the country together, taking notes, preparing strategy, and laying the groundwork for the country...
...urbane chitchat somehow convinces Albinus that three is no crowd. Besides, Axel stills Albinus' qualms with a ploy at least as old as Restoration comedy: he confides to Albinus that he is really a homosexual. Soon clouds mass amid the comic lightning. After a series of tragic plot incidents, Albinus drives into a telephone pole, but lives on, blinded. What follows is more climactic and cruel than the book's actual ending. Axel silently shares the house and Margot, while the pair mulct the pitiable Albinus of his remaining money ("Before...
...some great Romantic poet. DeShong's first act sun surpassed the moon that followed it, but both looked implausibly delightful, stuck up against Loeb's giant sweeping cyclorama. Stephen L. Tucker lit the show competently, although there appeared to be a few miscues in the execution of his plot...