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...ropes, is never fully explored. John Magoun's lighting is downright incompetent; areas go dark and light quite abruptly for no discernible reason. Anne Higonnet's costumes help establish an endearingly seedy atmosphere, although Scapino himself should show a bit more panache and the two ingenues should, to be blunt, show a bit more skin...
Watson's staff prepared inch-thick option papers on such issues as national health insurance, tax reform, the FBI. Watson wanted true options, not advocacy papers. A man to whom the shadings of language are terribly important, he often bounced back reports with blunt notations like: "This is an unsupported essay. Start over...
WOMEN'S ROLE. In a blunt challenge to Pope Paul, who sent a specially filmed message to open the conference, the delegates urged that women be admitted to the priesthood. One of the 520 women delegates seemed to speak for the meeting when she said that Catholicism has lost members who "no longer can believe in a church that discriminates against women." The meeting also appealed for an end to "sexist" language in liturgy and church documents, an enterprise that is currently engaging some Protestants and Jews (see following story...
...found exactly what he had feared: 25 of the bank of 30 telephones were unmanned. A cordial, soft-spoken man from a small town in Kentucky, Nicholson, 28, nonetheless knows how to use a stick when he has to. He jumped all over the local staff. His tongue was blunt, at times crude, and later he ruefully explained why he had acted that way. "It's damn frustrating out here," he said. "There's no spontaneity, no volunteer spirit. Even the party regulars are hard to turn...
...Treasury Secretary William Simon was even more blunt. Simon, who has feuded before with McNamara over his expansive management of the World Bank, noted that oil-importing countries face a $50 billion balance of payments deficit next year. Asserting that "a substantial number of countries have preferred to delay adjustment to higher oil prices and borrow abroad to finance consumption," Simon warned that from now on "world demands for capital will be massive and competition fierce...