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Just as the baby boom caused a number of dislocations, the birth dearth, following so soon in its wake, is beginning to have a troublesome impact on many parts of society. Many hospital maternity wards, opened or expanded in anticipation of a further population explosion, now have nearly empty nurseries. Last year maternity wards in New York's Nassau County hospitals had an occupancy rate of only 51%. Two New York City hospitals, Doctors and LeRoy, have already shut down their maternity wards, and another plans to do so. Three Los Angeles hospitals are considering similar action following...
Willie, because of his dearth of real lines and because he is hidden from sight for so much of the play, is also a hard subject to bring to life, and Dan Strickler never quite rises to the challenge. Willie's desperateness is vital to the play, but Strickler, who has a fine moment as he climbs up toward Winnie at the end, mugs the character rather than really acting him. Willie is also costumed terribly, looking more like Bozo the Clown than a human being worthy of serious consideration...
...cosmologist Erich von Däniken conjures up primordial heroes from the plain of Nazca and the temples of Palenque ?extraterrestrial astronauts who strayed to this planet long ago and then vanished. Today heroes and leaders bred on the earth seem almost as scarce. "There is a very obvious dearth of people who seem able to supply convincing answers, or even point to directions toward solutions," says Harvard President Derek Bok. "Leadership," observes Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti, "is one of those things you don't know you need until you don't have...
Impeachment was meant to be an integral part of our governmental system, a constitutional method for redressing wrongs committed by the country's high officials. We suffer no dearth of precedents (they fill over 2000 pages in House and Senate record books), and no lack of officials capable of presiding over the proceedings. But when the nation itself is in a period of profound social turmoil--as in the years of our impeached but unconvicted president, Andrew Johnson, and now--any challenge to even the temporary power holders seems to threaten disaster. Clearly, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment...
...Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked the telephone and refused to compose for it. (Late in his life, Beethoven is reported to have smashed his quill down on his writing table and shouted, "This damn phone is no damn use. It never rings!") But while the dearth of foreign compositions might be understandable, it is no less regrettable. Reading the book, one feels the same sense of loss a young man feels after missing his train home on a steamy summer evening...