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Editor's Note: Errol T. Louis's article When the Tough Get Going (10/4/83) quotes the phrase "kick ass" not from James Q. Wilson's writings but from the lecture delivered by Wilson and George L. Kelling to the Command Staff of the New York City Police Department...
...lecture which I delivered to the Command Staff of the New York City Police Department was based not only on the "Broken Windows" article written with Professor James Q. Wilson. [The Atlantic, 249, No.3 (March 1982) 29-33], but also on other articles I have published (especially about automobile and foot patrol), research I have conducted, my concern that those most vulnerable in our society--the urban poor, minorities, and the elderly--receive adequate police help and protection. Professor Wilson and other coauthors were in no way responsible for the content of that lecture...
...Robert Louis Stevenson saw him, James Durie, the Master of Ballantrae, dressed entirely in black and had the bearing "of one who was a fighter and accustomed to command." His brother Henry "had the essence of a gentleman, but... he fell short of the ornamental." What is more, the family was a bit hard-pressed for funds. Something has been lost in the translation. As elegantly portrayed by Michael York, 41, and Richard Thomas, 32, in a three-hour CBS-TV version to be aired next year, James and Henry seem to have been modeled less on the hardy Duries...
...unfamiliar role: as multimedia star. In his new one-man show, which opened last week on Broadway, he is portraying a man who helped define the image of the charming, demon-driven actor. The stage is suffused with a gloomy glow-the dressing room for a command performance in hell, crowded with the ghosts of Kean's past. His wife, his mistress, his dead son and his surviving one, the theater managers who wronged him and the leading men he saw as his incompetent rivals, all are evoked by Kingsley in brisk, meticulous sketches. Too brisk, perhaps: melodramatic incidents...
...wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest led them round a table three times in the ritual dance of Isaiah. Traditionally in the dance, one of the newlyweds steps on his (or her) partner's foot to signify who will command in the marriage. None of the 25 guests admitted seeing such one-foot-upmanship...