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...just a shade more punchy than the original, the other just a shade more dawn-lit. Best of the borrowed songs, though, are his soft-slippered strolls through the California Gold Rush song Days of '49 and the woodsmoky American folk song Copper Kettle, as well as a brisk canter down that paean to a restless heart, Gotta Travel...
...drug addiction. Milton Travers is a pseudonymous magazine writer whose 18-year-old son Ricky became a speed freak and vanished into New York's East Village. In Each Other's Victims, Travers describes how he tracked Ricky down and tried to rescue him. He is brisk, professional and explicit-about his son's life as an addict, about his own confused, guilt-soaked reactions, about the grubby details of the drug culture, or at least that part of it involving amphetamines. Except for a spectacular denouement (Papa dropping Librium, son suffering amphetamine withdrawal, both jabbering Oedipal...
...Woolworth's latest figures show a 14% rise. In New York City, Alexander's recently posted an 18% profit increase, aided by such promotions as "pre-inflation sales" that offered men's suits for $29. Used-car sales are also brisk, mainly for models costing less than $1,000. Auto-repair volume is up 10% from last year, partly because drivers are trying to nurse one more year from their old models...
Stravinsky has never found himself paralyzed by reticence, or embarrassed by garrulity. There is a brisk riot of social opinions, delivered with varying degrees of mockery. He censures the "military version of Manifest Destiny," the "victims of peace scares [stock-market investors]," the punitive assault on drug usage, calls for "an Onassis tax, a tax on tax expatriates, and not-likely-to-get-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-tax." He serves delicious remarks on the moon shot with "our three Astrobards reading Bible poetry to Sabbatarian earthlings," rips into the reptilian dowagers and Saharian financiers who run the orchestras...
...funniest of Chekhov's plays, and the only one which ends with a death. Chekhov said, "It's a comedy-a great deal of conversation about literature, little action, tons of love." The comedy revolves about various love triangles (Chekhov is the master of the geometry of love) and brisk talk about writing. Konstantin is not the stock young lover-fool. He is richly talented, abundantly sensitive. He cannot come to terms with life only because he has not lived it in any sense except the harmful one of self-created symbols. The act of killing the seagull is romantic...