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...executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "What the Christian school movement is saying is that public schools have two to three years to do a better job. If public schoolteachers are moral, work hard, and don't hide behind one or an other legal curtain in dealing with val ues, then most of the Christian parents will be happy and they'll go back to teaching Christianity elsewhere as they have done in the past...
...drama of parents and children begins as a love story, perhaps the most engrossing one that life ever offers. The plot then thickens considerably, and happy resolutions of all the ensuing difficulties are rare. Ordinarily, death rings down the curtain in midscene, leaving the younger actors with lines unspoken and an abrupt change in casting; whatever else they may play, they can be sons and daughters no longer...
After moving from Mexico to the bomb-pocked G.D.R. in 1948 with his mother Alma, half brother Stefan and stepfather Bodo Uhse, a highly acclaimed Socialist writer, Agee begins to observe with a foreigner's freshness. He remembers the early Iron Curtain: a chicken-wire fence in an old couple's garden, preventing imperialist rabbits of the British Zone from devouring the Voik's lettuce. He recalls the angst of a zealous Red poet when Khrushchev denounced Stalin: "In a fit of self-loathing he wished to be a lumberjack in some remote country like Norway. Very...
...American Ballet Theater. The audience, lavishly dressed for the party that will follow, sits through a numbing succession of virtuoso turns: gaudy pas de deux and solo flights by resident stars, international étoiles and great names of the past who walk through famous old roles. Even the curtain calls are a production, usually choreographed more carefully than the rest of the show. The balletgoers finally leave, convinced that they have seen something unique but vowing to themselves "Never again...
BEFORE THE FIRST LINE of dialogue is spoken. Bundy's The Hostage assumes a peculiar vaguely confused tone. The curtain rises on the delapidated lodging house: a light-haired woman stands beside a piano, waving to the audience. As she sits at the piano and begins to play. The company comes onstage and dances a jig. Their steps are careful. Scrupulously well-executed: you can see the concentration on their faces, in their wide alert eves, in their lips that move softly as they count the beats. The tinny sound of the piano and the gently pitter-pat of shoes...