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...Steve Smalling compared the second constitutional convention to a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett [March 12]. Personally, I prefer to think of it as the renovation of a historical landmark that if left alone would soon fall into decay and oblivion. Even the White House has to have a coat of paint now and then...
Argento, who won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize, has not totally lost his musical sense. There are several ensembles-brief trios and quartets, a long quintet-that have attenuated fascination in this dream world. The orchestration is sparse, but it underscores the decay and the stopped time that Miss Havisham inhabited after she smashed her clocks on what was to be her wedding...
More and more he withdrew from public life, seeking the obscurity of the old days. He suffered from a crippling writer's block, and complained of sterility and decay. Even the Nobel, awarded in 1957, was perceived as both an honor and an invasion of privacy. "I'm castrated!" he complained to a friend. The cry, like many of his statements, was pure theater. Yet as Lottman shows, Camus produced no more major work. He retreated to the sanctity of his home, to Francine and their twins, and was at work on a new novel, The First...
...Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) told members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) Friday night that the cities of Massachusetts can rebound from several decades of decay, but warned the federal government would likely give little help...
...Clearly, though, there is still a problem," Tsongas said. He blamed city-dwellers for much of the urban decay. "In many communities, after decades of decline, there is an ingrained sense that if this is Lowell, it can't be good," he said, adding, "that is a problem all over the state...