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...courts dismiss the accusations based on memory, then they are also dismissing the rights of all children, who are too often seen as helpless and therefore convenient victims; the testimony of psychiatrists and brain researchers, who say that memory can be buried; the possibility that the mind is fluid, better understood by its possessor than by lawyers. And they will be dismissing one of the lessons of Salem, too: that the power structure of the day, composed now as then of men, goes to great lengths to defend itself against assaults that would deprive it of power, property, authority...
...traditional metaphor for this is that of a mosaic. But Richard Rodriguez, the Mexican-American essayist who is a psalmist for our new hybrid forms, points out that the interaction is more fluid than that, more human, subject to daily revision. "I am Chinese," he says, "because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America." And even as he announces this new truth, Portuguese women are becoming American, and Irishmen are becoming Portuguese, and Sydney (or is it Toronto?) is thinking to compare itself with the "Chinese city" we know...
...trend with not one but three premieres on successive nights: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin, Hugo Weisgall's Esther and, most provocatively, Ezra Laderman's Marilyn (yes, that Marilyn). All three were designed by Jerome Sirlin (who did Broadway's Kiss of the Spider Woman), a dazzling visual stylist whose fluid use of video projections instead of built sets annihilates space and time and gives his productions an exhilarating sense of visual freedom...
...typesetter, I loved it. I figured out what all the weird leading keys on the side of the keyboard actually meant and could fix the buffer with a good whack to the side. Some of my happiest memories of high school are of working amidst the smell of developer fluid...
While there is room for compromise, and both sides are pledging a genuine effort to negotiate, there is also a possibility of deadlock. But the battle lines are more fluid than usual: the Administration has artfully put together various ideas into a plan with enough of a something-for-everybody approach to splinter some normally united interest groups...