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When President Sukarno decided to pester Malaysia with his konfrontasi, a kind of demi-war in which feints are more important than fighting, he little imagined that he would one day be the victim of his own tactic. Yet konfrontasi is just what Sukarno is experiencing at the hands of Indonesia's new triumvirate, headed by Army Lieut. General Suharto. The triumvirate still feels that Sukarno is too powerful to be openly challenged, but it is systematically reducing the aura that once surrounded him. Last week the aging (65) dictator could not pick up a newspaper, or even glance...
...mothers are locked in love-hate relationships with brutish husbands or acquiescent sons. Two plays are mild-mannered comedies in which Lawrence woodenly twits denatured civilization and desexualized man. There is even one play, based on the Biblical David, which fuzzily explores Lawrence's pseudoreligious cult of the demi-divine ruler...
...Great Society is in large measure based on belated governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that...
...states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status. Not yet developed, yet no longer underdeveloped, it stands betwixt and between, a demi-developed society...
From the script alone I couldn't tell whose side Giraudoux was on. And I wasn't even left with that everybody-loses-most-of-the-time wistfulness one feels at the end of most of those. Nineteenth Century demi-tragedies where everybody loses. My only strong emotion was that Lucille was a pretty stupid girl...