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Design for Living is the story of three young "artistic souls" and their precocious attempts at worldliness. The settings of the three scenes correspond to stages in the heroine Gilda's conquest of the world through the men who surround her. (One is forced to be forgiving of plays written in the thirties.) In the first, Gilda leaves the Parisian garret of the artist Otto to run off with his best friend, the playwright Leo. The second act takes place in Leo's "comfy" London townhouse, when the newly successful Otto comes to reclaim her. Gilda dumps both...
...look of poets. There was poetry in outer space and in double helixes, whereas in poetry itself T.S. Eliot's Hollow Men of 1925 seemed merely to breed the self-absorption of Robert Lowell's Life Studies in 1959. Tragedy shriveled to the Death of a Salesman. Robert Conquest wrote a poem, For the 1956 Opposition of Mars, in which he exulted, "Pure joy of knowledge rides as high as art." Knowledge has seemed to ride higher...
...goal set. No one could forecast precisely how the great new tide of law would feel its way around obstacles. But with the court's new mandate, it was clear that the tide was running, and, as long as the U.S. remained a government of law, the ultimate conquest of segregation was inevitable...
...premise that it will take all the land of the West Bank of the Jordan River. If Israel forecloses a compromise peace in the Middle East, then it guarantees another generation of conflict. Sooner or later we have to ask whether the U.S. is unfailingly committed to protecting Israeli conquest of the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem." It would be a mistake, Saunders believes, to let Yitzhak Shamir, who is likely to replace Begin as Prime Minister, think he can write his own ticket with the U.S., as Begin did. Adds Saunders: "That would mean letting things...
...December 1978 the Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of Cambodia, by then renamed "Democratic Kampuchea." Cambodians welcomed the conquest of their homeland by their historical neighboring enemy, just as they'd embraced the Khmer Rouge only a few years earlier, Lien credits the Vietnamese with rescuing her from certain death: the flux and confusion accompanying the incursion allowed her and her brothers to escape one night across the reedy, mountainous border into Thailand. Behind in the camp they left a cavernous pit, which Lien had learned was to be a mass grave for the workers...