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...Bearing the subtitle A Summer Comedy, it completes a quartet of plays intended to celebrate the seasons and the regenerative powers of the human spirit. When Fry began the cycle in 1948 with The Lady's Not for Burning (spring) and continued two years later with Venus Observed (autumn), his name flared like a rocket over the grayness of postwar theater. He was, it seemed, no less than a successor to the Elizabethans. After his winter play in 1954, The Dark Is Light Enough, the English stage was stormed by the realistic "angry" playwrights, and Fry was jostled...
Until recently, Italians accepted this "dictatorship of the bureaucracy" with sad fatalism. Lately, however, unhappiness has changed to anger. Since last autumn, all sorts of groups-firemen and farmers, nurses and teachers-have gone on strike, as much in rage against the government as in quest of higher pay. Now, after 20 years of study and a year of parliamentary debate, Rome is finally responding. This week, in what may eventually be regarded as the most significant Italian election in two decades, 30 million Italian voters are choosing regional councils that will transfer considerable power from the capital...
...Every autumn in the U.S., faithful as falling leaves, rumors fly that either Norman Mailer or W.H. Auden has won the Nobel Prize. It is hard to know why. The old gentlemen of Stockholm who award the prize have a way of bypassing big and/or distinguished names in favor of astounding alternatives. But not since Icelander Halldór Laxness was plucked from above the tree line in 1955 has there been such total befuddlement as greeted the 1968 award to Novelist Yasunari Kawabata...
...volunteered that Bonn would eventually "solve" East Germany's demand for recognition if Ulbricht & Co. would only respond to his offers of closer ties. Though Stoph was unresponsive, he declared on his return to East Berlin that his regime would be willing to continue the talks, possibly m autumn in East Germany...
...second part of the book is devoted to the San Francisco scene-the origins of the Height, the "summer of love" and the following autumn, when the hippie movement was declared dead, murdered by the media. From there, the book shifts back to the East, keeping pace with the changing vibrations, as the love-peace-flower power ethic finally dissolves, and the Movement begins to splinter...