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...class singles in Manhattan. There are references to reading the Sunday Times, or Saturday night prowling various bars, putting up with parents and their querulous worries about their kids in the Big City. And there are the songs themselves, with their laments about loneliness, their fantasies ranging from the crude to the delicately romantic, and their general paean to a life of high-powered lack of direction. "Let me tell you one thin," one audience member was overheard muttering on the way out, "that's just not the way it is in the suburbs of Detroit...
...survivals of the heroic," and it pleased her that football "arouses only the most simple and normal emotions" and "offers no particular inducement to betting." She wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown all our old animal instincts yet, heaven grant we never shall! The moment that, as a nation, we lose brute force, or an admiration for brute force, from that moment poetry and art are forever dead among us, and we will have nothing but grammar...
...unifying tone was noticeably absent in Miami. Suarez, 34, a wealthy attorney who once ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the city commission, openly appealed to the Cuban hunger for political control of the city. Little Havana was plastered with signs for "nuestro alcalde" (our mayor), and one particularly crude political cartoon distributed by Suarez's organization portrayed Ferre in a phone booth talking to Fidel Castro. Cuban radio stations conveyed the message that "no one but a Cuban is pro-American enough for our interests...
...insisting on the importance of subject-matter. It may not even have been wrong, considering the age we live in, in demanding that literature shall be first and foremost propaganda. Where it has been wrong is in making what are ostensibly literary judgements for political ends. To take a crude example, what Communist would dare to admit in public that Trotsky is a better writer than Stalin-as he is, of course? To say "X is a gifted writer, but he is a political enemy and I shall do my best to silence him" is harmless enough. Even...
...around the northern port city of Tripoli. According to Abu Mousa, leader of the rebel faction that mounted the assault, it was meant only to persuade Arafat to enter a "dialogue of reform" with P.L.O. dissidents who oppose his policies. The battle, in reality, was nothing less than a crude move by Syria to squelch Arafat once and for all and seize control of the P.L.O. Faced with the gloomy choice of fleeing Lebanon or surrendering, Arafat elected to stay and wage battle. Yet no matter how long he holds out, the siege last week seemed to presage his eclipse...