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...classics like David Copperfteld and Great Expectations show, Dickens may be the easiest of the great novelists to dramatize in the movies. But George Cukor, who directed Copperfield in 1935, was right when he pointed out that "the toughness, the edge that Dickens had, must be preserved." More recently we have come to think that children cannot stand, or understand, the writer's true craggy spirit. What an irony, considering the televised garbage they are constantly exposed to. And what a disservice to them as well as to Dickens...
...people with the least authority in the Combat Zone seem to feel easiest about telling me what they do here. The bartenders, for example, are in control. They ignore you unless you're soaked. A hefty woman who punches tickets to pornographic films, on the other hand...
...whole coffeehouse/gallery/theater has that sepia feel; occasionally the subway rumbles and chugs underneath; Red Zinger tea is the easiest smell in the place; and over in the corner a spot of white paint denotes a sweat-drop in the photo-realist painting of Richard Nixon meeting the press. Off The Wall is an atmosphere, slightly hazy and warm; light is refracted but does not bounce. It only ripples, like the images on the screen...
...mess, because two-thirds of the world is nonwhite, and we would not have enough whites to go around. If the schools are effective and children learn, that is the easiest way to achieve the ultimate goal of integration." Retorts Kenneth Clark: "There is no such thing as improvement in the schools while they are still segregated. As long as we have segregated schools, I see no alternative to busing. Integration is a painful job. It is social therapy, and like personal therapy it is not easy." Kenneth Tollett, director of Washington's Institute for the Study of Education Policy...
Essential Step. Despite all the agony the agreement has caused, it is still only an interim settlement, and the easiest part to solve of the many-sided Arab-Israeli conflict. There is much less room for give on the Golan Heights, which are disputed by both Israel and Syria; both countries appear intractable on the issues. A solution to the Palestinian problem is nowhere in sight, and there seems little hope for compromise on ownership of the West Bank of the Jordan. Jerusalem is coveted by both sides for its religious shrines and its symbolic authority, but the Israelis...