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...till stricken Henry with his sisters & brothers...
...more than three centuries, one man had despotic power to decide what plays would or would not appear on the public stage in Britain. As the royal censor, the Lord Chamberlain could summarily order an offending word, line or scene stricken from a script, or he could ban a play altogether by refusing to license it for performance. Although blue-penciling has eased in recent years, English playwrights have persistently demanded total dramatic freedom, and last July Parliament abolished the Chamberlain's licensing authority. Two weeks ago, the U.S. folk-rock musical Hair became the first play publicly staged...
Scores of U.S. corporations, business coalitions, labor unions and foundations have contributed heavily to programs aimed at easing the plight of the nation's poverty-stricken citizens-a large proportion of whom are Negroes. In most instances, such efforts have been purely philanthropic. Yet it is becoming apparent that good deeds and financial dividends are not mutually exclusive...
...weaker book than his others. Yet the book rises toward the end to Solzhenitsyn's most direct statement of the complicity of everyone in the guilt of the past: "It's shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade after decade to tell it as it is, the mind becomes irreparably deluded, and finally it becomes harder to comprehend one's own compatriot than a man from Mars...
Real liberals of the McCarthy stripe are few and far between in this poverty-stricken state, but the moderate reformers like Sec. of State party nominee John D. Rockefeller IV are relatively liberal. James Sprouce, a reformer won the party nomination after a long fight against one of the state's many close to corrupt party officials. If he wins, the reformers will have control of the all important patronage to build themselves up for 1970. A possible challenge for progressives in '70 is conservative Sen. Byrd. Men to watch are Sprouce and Rockefeller...