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...reform-minded police commissioner and city planners, who in recent years have managed to replace 22 depressed acres of slums with office buildings, hotels and theaters. The city's present target is one that many Baltimoreans had long considered inviolable: the Block. A loud, neon-bathed concentration of gin mills and peel parlors, the Block (which at present embraces four city blocks) is a short walk from the waterfront-and only a few paces from city hall and police headquarters...
...last sentence caused the greatest furor because opponents felt it could be taken out of context. "Tomorrow Harvard SDS could disrupt a class, and people could say the HUC was in favor of bringing gin police against students,' Eli M. Noam '70 said. The sentence was retained by a vote...
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN is like a gin and tonic when you're expecting martinis: weaker, heavier, and maybe just a trifle too bitter to be really intoxicating. In adapting the play by the British Giles Cooper, Edward Albee has unfortunately burdened an amusing premise--that a group of suburban ladies should take up part-time prostitution--with all the weight of a major statement on the Decline of the American Empire. Everything in the Garden is basically an entertainingly sardonic drawing room comedy and Albee should have treated it as such...
...sits Julie Harris, trig though middleaged, lovely though unhappy. She needs transportation. There stands young Marco St. John, tall, dark, handsome and ever so resourceful. He has a motorcycle to share with the lady. As added enticements, he also offers Julie a bottle of ouzo (which is stronger than gin and sweeter than licorice) and a refreshing nocturnal skinny dip in the wine-dark Aegean. What is a twice-divorced damsel of 40 to do? She accepts, naturally...
...illustrations. They are composed in strong patterns of dark and light -- like the black and white judgements of the seeker-voice which moves through the poems demanding experience. The figures of the cover are aspects of this split soul -- of which part wants rest, and part wants "dancing, gin, and girls." But the real land met in either search is only bare rock or rotting flesh -- "How sour the knowledge the travellers bring away...