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...people's sadness. These actors use each other deftly--dodging, fondling, intercepting and abusing one another's banter and bodies. The only remaining character, the Indian, functions as a mere punching bag, a prop that's hardly more human than the bus stop sign. His two-dimensionality is another flaw on the playwright's part, and about all Suchecki (who acts as well as directs) can do in this role is loiter on stage looking inane and pitiable...
...incidents used in the story are taken directly from history. Whether they seem familiar or not, they are never as fully developed as they might have been in a documentary film, nor as fully digested as they should have been by any first-class dramatist. An even more serious flaw, however, is the fact that not a single character in The Front is surprising. The weak never startle with a momentary show of strength. The wicked never betray a flash of compassion. The heroes never convincingly falter in their convictions. They are simply not alive, and it is hard...
...alone. The main reasons were voter protests against Watergate and the recession, but Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler, a moderate Republican who was one of several Southern stars on the House Judiciary Committee that voted for impeachment of President Nixon, ascribes to the G.O.P. of his own state a flaw that applies elsewhere as well. Says he: "Republicans in Virginia have fallen heir to the extremist conservative elements of the Democratic Party...
More Jobs. Like a jeweler who inspects a gem for the subtlest flaw, New York Democrats quickly spot the slightest deviation from accepted liberal doctrine. For the most part, the candidates give the purists little to worry about. All five call for more jobs in the public sector, passage of the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, national health insurance, a U.S. takeover of welfare, and federal assistance to New York City-all multibillion-dollar programs that would sharply increase budget deficits or taxes or both. In heavily Jewish New York City, moreover, the candidates cannot do enough for Israel...
...loves-with some misgivings-the deep American belief in human perfectibility and goodness. Yet an element of this belief is the fact that America lacks an adequate sense of evil. In the Enlightenment tradition, evil is explained away as a curable flaw. But even in the puritan and evangelical tradition, the American sense of evil is curiously shallow and optimistic, more concerned with behavior (sex or drink, for example) than with the deeper states of sin. The devil can be banished, and evil can be fought; evil is seen almost as a mere "problem" to be solved. There is little...