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...whole tone of morality then was different. In Restoration England, debauchery was public and unabashed. King Charles II acknowledged 14 bastards, openly went to church with them, even gave them titles (the present Duke of Richmond springs from the Stuart bar sinister). But there was just as much vigor among the Puritan opposition, which lustily preached fire and brimstone. In Ward's Britain, vice tends to be half-hidden by respectability-and only half-condemned. There is a relative lack of moral indignation in many quarters, including Profumo's own constituency (see following story). The Labor Opposition, though...
...your throat?" The answer, according to the ad, is not to take the elevator but to take the cure at Bad Tölz, a gemütlich Bavarian spa* where "a new, particularly iodine-rich spring gives your blood vessels elasticity, your heart strength, your nerves fresh vigor." Like all the 140 officially recognized watering places in West Germany, Bad Tölz is itself in the pink of condition, thanks to a booming health cult that in 1963 will lure a record 3,500,000 patients to spas offering cures for virtually every ailment known to medicine...
Poor Paul Barstow is once again the daffy old man, this time Helene's father. Playing the aged all summer seems to have made him prematurely senile: his Nonancourt is far too feeble for my taste, lacking the vigor one would expect from a hardy rural patrician...
...play is written with Hellman's customary vigor and elegance, and James Poe's script incorporates almost all of it intact. What's more, Geraldine Page slithers through her role with the sinister sweetness of a chocolate-covered cobra, and Dean Martin demonstrates impressively that he can act. But something is terribly wrong with this picture. It is cold, mechanical, dead. The central situation is contrived, and the characters are about as sincerely Southern as a bouquet of nylon magnolia blossoms. Playwright Hellman left New Orleans when she was still a child, and time has strewn cobwebs...
While bruising Democrats and scoring points for the G.O.P. at Miami Beach, Nelson Rockefeller improved his own in-need-of-improvement political position. The leadership, vigor and fighting spirit he displayed reminded politicians that, although Barry Goldwater is still well ahead in the race for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1964, Rocky knows how to run. And outside the meeting rooms of the conference, the New York Governor showed that despite the steep drop in his popularity rating after his remarriage, he is still a political personality. Again and again at Miami Beach, the beaming Governor and his smiling wife...