Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BRATTLE. Passion of Joan of Arc. 6, 8:45. Closely Watched Trains. 7:15, wkend...
EQUALLY popular with tourists and Parisians, Le Drugstore, located near the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysées, was as zany a bit of pseudo Americana abroad as a Frenchman could have conceived. Opened by Advertising Tycoon Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet in 1958, Le Drugstore offered an expensive boutique, books and magazines, a restaurant that served hamburgers and banana splits, and a department for prescription drugs. The formula worked so well that Paris soon had a flock of "Drugstores...
...years of service in the U.S. Navy, thought that he could take care of himself. The Navy disagreed. Aware that the chiefs drinking was ruining both his health and his efficiency, his superiors assigned him to one of the service's newest installations, the Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center (ARC) at Little Creek, Va. At first, Frank objected to the assignment: "I'm a chief petty officer and nobody is going to push me around." Several weeks of therapy changed his attitude. "I'm an alcoholic," he acknowledged later. "But there's a cure for this thing...
Restricted to the base for the first two weeks of what is usually an eight-week stay, the sailors spend six hours a day in counseling sessions with ARC staffers, many of whom are themselves recovered alcoholics. The point of these conversations is to get the man to understand both the physical and psychological aspects of alcoholism. Five evenings each week, the center's 75 patients travel to civilian Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. On the sixth evening, they hold their own A.A. meeting at Little Creek, involving their wives whenever possible...
Selective evidence is the device Fiedler uses to make his case, and some of it is weirdly selective. He brushes aside Cleopatra, Juliet, Desdemona and Cordelia, since they do not bolster the antiwoman argument, and dwells on the unflattering portrayal of Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part I to establish Shakespeare's bias. It is more direct and more correct to recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable...