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...almost any point, the reader is likely to get a favorite recipe from Chef Grass (simmered tripe with caraway seeds) or a growling epithet on Hegel: "Thanks to his subtlety, every abuse of state power has to this day been explained as historically necessary." Another snail detour documents the diaspora of the Jews of Grass's native Danzig during World War II. Here the narration seems to match the sinister creeping pace of anti-Semitism in its early stages...
Those who hope to travel down memory lane with the score will find much of it a dusty detour. Only Alice Blue Gown, You Made Me Love You and the title song have survived 1919 with melodic vitality. Thanks be to Peter Gennaro's dance numbers for some lively eye openers at points in the story where one might be strongly tempted to doze off. They are executed with zest and finesse, and one number, The Riviera Rage, also possesses a saucy elegance...
...Paris for the promised one final session to wrap up the peace package. On television, Richard Nixon repeated that he would not be "stampeded" into signing the agreement before it is "right." George McGovern replied bitterly that Nixon had embarked "not on a path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood. In Saigon, meanwhile, South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu escalated his fulminations of discontent by declaring that...
...process, considered that political representation by quota. In a Labor Day address Nixon broadened the attack, assailing any attempt to use quotas as a means of correcting job discrimination. "Quotas are intended to be a short cut to equal opportunity," he conceded, "but in reality they are a dangerous detour away from the traditional value of measuring a person on the basis of ability...
...beautiful cover story about Johnny Bench. This is a refreshing detour around war, crime, drugs...