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...Genial Society, everybody is too genial about major and minor fraud. Parents are light fingered with the maid's social security payments; Dad might "gift" the cop on the beat with a fifth of whisky for overlooking his daily parking violation; the children, taking their cue from the elders, might crib on an exam or lie about a date...
When the London theaters reopened in 1660, after having been shuttered by the Puritans for 18 years, the Restoration decided that Shakespeare needed rewriting. Taking its cue from Ben Jonson ("Shakespeare wanted art"), the Restoration and the Age of Reason argued that the Bard was a barbaric child of Nature whose war bled woodnotes wild violated the Aristotelian unities of time, place and action. His plots were a confusing mishmash of the tragic and comic. He was vulgar. Samuel Pepys confided to his diary that Hamlet "disgusts this refined age." Dryden called him "divine Shakespeare," but added smugly: "I have...
...Premier Nobusuke Kishi and raucous demands that President Eisenhower stay away from Japan. Last May, after Kishi pushed the new U.S. security treaty through Parliament, Asahi called the action "a dictatorship of the majority," provocatively suggested that violence was the only appropriate response. As the street mobs took the cue, increasingly virulent headlines demanded Kishi's resignation, concocted highly imaginative crises: PARTY LEADERS DESERT KISHI, and NATION'S DIET SYSTEM IS STANDING AT CROSS ROADS OF LIFE OR DEATH...
...threats were made grimly explicit earlier in the week when thousands of Japanese leftists, singing the Internationale and responding on cue to the orders of their leaders, mobbed Ike's advance men, Press Secretary James Hagerty and White House Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens, as they tried to drive to the city from Tokyo's International Airport with U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II (see FOREIGN NEWS). Tokyo's police chief flatly announced that he could not "guarantee Eisenhower's safety" when the President arrives next Sunday...
After the seizure, dutiful banner head lines blossomed, and the president of the newspaper union, Salah Salem, jumped up on cue with a message of gushing gratitude to Nasser: "We thank you from the depths of our hearts for the fortunate move you took in turning over all the press resources, which are the main instruments of orientation and guidance to the people. By so doing, you have provided confirmation of the true meanings of the freedom of the press...