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...just himself. He undergoes emotions, but can control and channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial and ear-tickling poetry, full of wonderful imagery. In fact, Richard's speeches tend to be arias and ariosos. Never was Shakespeare more intent on creating verbal music (and indeed it is no accident that, except for King John, Richard II is his only play without a single line of prose...
Buckley's verbal agility never flagged all through the question-andanswer period that followed his talk. Asked what he thought would happen to Mayor Lindsay's political career if he were appointed to the Senate, Buckley disposed of his former opponent with a casual "I don't know. Where will he give fewer speeches?" And what about ex-Mayor Robert F. Wagner's appointment as Ambassador to Spain? Nothing wrong with that, said Buckley of his former Democratic nemesis' new assignment. "After all, he doesn't have to run Madrid...
Equally inflammatory to unstable minds is the rising hyperbole of U.S. political debate. Race, Viet Nam, crime- all lend themselves to verbal overkill, not so much by candidates as by extremists: the John Birchers, the Rap Browns, the most ardent war critics, the Ku Kluxers. The evidence is everywhere. In Dallas, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander snarls on a TV show: "Earl Warren shouldn't be impeached-he should be hanged." Cries Rap Brown: "How many whites did you kill today?" Lyndon Johnson is routinely excoriated as a mass murderer. Robert Kennedy was branded by San Francisco hippies...
From the start, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's lax grip on leadership of the Poor People's Campaign has been steadily slipping away. Last week his hold relaxed to the point of paralysis. While Resurrection City afforded Washington an unseemly display of backbiting and verbal pyromania, the protest movement's leaders purged the man who, above all, might have given their faltering cause realistic direction...
George P. Elliott is no square, but there is something sturdily old-fashioned about him all the same. The fictional fashions of the day are for chaos, apocalypse and sexual grotesqueries, splattered onto the page in a sort of verbal-action painting. Yet here is Elliott with 13 quiet, thoughtful stories, precisely fitted with conventional plot and narrative, and-at their best-fairly humming with moral earnestness. As for eroticism, Elliott is still getting mileage out of the kiss...