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...defects that mar Fool for Love -slapdash structuring, spongy logic -are not unique to Sam Shepard, now nearing 40, but weaken the works of oft-called "promising" U.S. playwrights in the same generation. To transform experience into consciousness is what differ entiates art from reportage. It is not enough to leave a theater knowing what we have seen. We ought to leave it knowing more than we knew. Shepard does not really provide that illumination, nor do Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Albert Innaurato, David Rabe, Thomas Babe, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Christopher Durang...
...area where the Harvard scholars could not agree was on support for the MX. Instead, as they do in other instances, they included in the book all of their differ ing points of view on the topic. Says one of the Harvard authors: "It was important to tell the public why reasonable people can disagree." - By George Russell...
...insistence of the Vatican, the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter explicitly states that only the church's broad moral principles are absolute (for example, the immorality of indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians); it also concedes that Catholics of good will might differ over how these principles apply to the intricacies of nuclear weaponry. But the bishops also contend that their "moral judgment in specific cases, while not binding on conscience, is to be given serious attention and consideration" by America's 50 million Catholics as they develop their own thinking on the morality of nuclear arms. -By Richard...
Beckman explains that although they exert a similar influence on the squad, they differ in playing styles. "Howard is a really tough player mentally, while Warren and Adam are fighters--they work hard and fight for everything they...
...international behavior of the Soviet Union [under Andropov] will not necessarily differ much from the behavior under Brezhnev, except that Brezhnev as a person was deeply afraid of the possibility of war. How does Andropov compare with him? My feeling is, if I may oversimplify, that Brezhnev was a Russian soul as we think of a Russian soul from having read Dostoyevsky or Pushkin, whereas Andropov is a modern computer filled with Russian software...