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...satire is nevertheless entertaining and chock-full of Shaw's provocative themes from the unsatisfactory relations of children and parents and women and men to the Life Force that opposes death to the stagnation of English society to the logic of socialism. To wade through this interesting but sticky bog of ideas with a light step, the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater expends an extraordinary amount of energy. Despite a lack of polish apparent in the slow opening portion of the play, the company held a large opening night crowd enthusiastically engrossed by playing the laughs broadly and the histrionics...
...weather is a continuing threat. Rains, if they come at all this year, are due to arrive in mid-June. They could transform the dusty Sahel into a muddy bog, making vehicle traffic impossible. FAO officials had hoped that most of this year's aid would be prepositioned in remote regions by June. However, red tape and a lack of urgency by the donor countries made shipments late. Most of the grains should have arrived at African ports by March, but only 266,000 tons had been received by April. An additional 170,500 tons arrived last month...
...glimpses. Among them: the fanatic neatness of an Irish Republican Army bullyboy and Davey's sudden realization that cleanliness and godliness don't always walk together. In World Without End, Amen, Breslin weighs in as a serious novelist, then takes himself too seriously. The narrative's bog-slogging pace is a shame, be cause Breslin clearly cares, and can teach much about people who seldom turn up in current fiction: frustrated cops, tiresome racists, lower-middle-class wives with horizons defined by mortgage payments and broken washing machines. Breslin knows this turf, but he seems to have...
...opportunity to create a grand new design for the future of Europe. More specifically, it can be a prime indicator of whether the present trend toward detente in Europe will develop into an era of genuine peace. But there is also a danger that the conference could bog down and become little more than a roundelay of ritual and rhetoric. Much depends on the Soviet Union, which has been pressing for a security conference of some sort for nearly two decades...
...former P.O.W.s, along with their wives and friends and one Playboy Playmate, the occasion was one of joy that not even a downpour could diminish. Most of them squished happily through the bog that had once been the White House lawn. One veteran of a Viet Nam prison remarked, "It's not the first time I've sat in the mud to eat, but at least this time I have a chair...