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When will all this end? Certainly not after just one book; the first sequel to A God Against the Gods will appear this spring, and only the combined will of God and his publisher can stop Drury now. Already the momentum is starting to build. While it took him 15 years of Advise and Consent novels just to kill off three Presidents, two Senators and a Secretary of State--and, of course, all those Chinese who died in the nuclear war--Drury now has 3000 years of Egyptian history to play around with. The possibilities are, unfortunately, almost endless...
...Chiang Ch'ing's influence, Mao had proclaimed that all plays portraying "ghosts" or "emperors and princes, generals and ministers, gifted scholars and beauties" should be banned. Instead, there should be idealization of the proletariat. Thus Chiang Ch'ing had started during the Cultural Revolution to build a new "proletarian " art from scratch. One of her successes was the showy Red Detachment of Women-performed for President Nixon in Peking in 1972. She recounts the difficulties she had in staging this theatrical extravaganza...
...first of the old alphabet agencies set up to create jobs in the 1930s was F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which in nine years sent 2.5 million young men to the nation's forests and parklands to cut trails, build fire towers, chop brush and plant nearly 2 billion trees. Last week President Carter proposed in effect to resurrect the CCC as part of a $1.8 billion program to put youths to work...
...Boston Pops, who handed the microphone over to Ozawa last week, declared that the freedom, peace, and music that made Tanglewood a favorite tourist resort area in the state (second only to Cape Cod) would be destroyed by the prison installment. "It's taken many years to build up a facility like Tanglewood," Fielder said. "To place a prison across the road from it would ruin the whole thing overnight...
...people from getting killed as possible." As a teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally stressing legal theory, law schools fail to offer students a sense of everyday practice. To remedy this, he instituted an advanced criminal law seminar that required the twelve students to take an actual prosecution and build their own defense cases from pre-trial procedure to courtroom maneuvers. This year he is focusing on defenses for the criminally insane. Says Amsterdam: "Law students can learn more from knowing how to ask good questions than from studying appellate briefs. To be able to make split-second decisions, they...