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...professor George and his bitch wife Martha, and Al Ronzio and Lori Heineman as their young faculty-party acquaintances, Nick and Honey, work well under the requirements of this changing dimension. Much of the success of the Atma production of Virginia Woolf depends on the four actors' ability to alter their speech, motions, and emotions in the constantly changing context of their characters' drunkenness, and on the ability of their director, Sam Shamshack, to guide them in doing this...
Nixon, too, is attempting to alter the course of recent decades with a radical innovation. When he returned to Washington last week, he sent Congress his detailed recommendations for "general" revenue sharing, which in its first full year of operation would give the states and municipalities $5 billion in new federal money-along with near-total freedom in spending it. The President faces strong opposition as he presses forward with what he has called a new American revolution. The original had a still-remembered fiscal catch phrase, "No taxation without representation"; Nixon framed an argument that might be summarized, less...
...method of protest. Explains one of the church's lay financial advisers in Rome: "The Vatican was getting blamed for too many things. If Immobiliare raised the rents, the tenants blamed the Vatican. If the water was cut off, it was the Pope's fault." To alter that image, the Vatican will now have "neither authority nor responsibility in the management of a company...
...original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing to nowhere. When that view of man alters, the vogue for Beckett will end. And the view will alter, for man has never gone .through any extended period of history with such a dim, stunted opinion of himself and his destiny. During failures of nerve, men are simply catching their breath for the next onslaught on fate...
...look at society in spatial terms. No longer did the Soviet society have to be a mass that could only be carved away or molded into massive forms, but instead, society was more than pliant; the artist could construct a society; he could create the gestalt rather than merely alter it; the Constructivist was concerned with a new metaphysics in terms of tectonics...