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...younger son why he doesn't get a job. An immigrant matriarch, her next question is pencil-point sharp: "Why did you go to college?" His riposte: "To avoid being asked questions like this after high school." One of the distinctly appealing aspects of Table Settings is its benign ami ability. Even when Lapine's characters verge on cartoons, he presents them as en dearingly human in their follies, desires and genetically nutty ways. His direction of his own play is brisk, and his cast is close to flawless. A special huzzah should be raised...
...Carter Administration will almost certainly continue to pursue human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and curbs on arms sales. But it will now do so, Brzezinski told TIME, "with a more sober realization-which might be salutary-that the Soviets won't be benign partners." Carter's concern with what he has proudly called "global issues" has already been thoroughly institutionalized...
...cited the following factors as indicative of a loss of the gains made in the 1960s and a turn from a "benign to a malignant neglect" of race-related issues in the 1970s...
...perhaps the main source of possible danger through a conceivable nuclear confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Endemic instability there was heightened when the Israelis, who had the chance for magnaminity after the Six Day War of 1967, might possibly have created an atmosphere of relatively benign feeling, not only vis-a-vis Egypt, but also vis-a-vis other adversary Arab states, by being willing to trade occupied land and the people in them for peace and secure boundaries. In stead, a non-adversary state, namely Lebanon, has been shattered, and the lack of inventiveness...
...women, and perhaps in some respects, more than women--not to speak of the children. If we can live through the next years of nuclear weapons peril, and the dangers within this country of civil strife--what I sometimes think of as traffic jam litigious democracy--I can envisage benign futures which some wings of the women's movement foreshadow with their combined interest in nurturing the oncoming population of children and tough-minded realism about contemporary affairs...