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...Alvarez uses his first marriage as the vehicle for a rambling meditation on the vagaries of love and separation. Like his previous work, a study of suicide, The Savage God, he treats a difficult and distressing subject in the symmetrical style of belles-lettres. Divorce, he remarks dryly, "transforms habit into drama," turning miseries into melodramatic history. Roman marriage, he observes, was a civil contract based on mutual affection. When that affection perished, the marriage, like any civil contract, could be dissolved by mutual consent. This sensible arrangement, according to Alvarez, was compromised by Christianity. The early church fathers elevated...
...reason for the squeeze is obvious. In 1978 there were 368 professional productions in Los Angeles. Last year there were 573 and, by all indications, the number this year should be well over 600. "We are building new audiences, getting people into the habit of going to the theater," says Gordon Davidson, artistic director of the Mark Taper. "Broadway plays wait for an audience; if the audience doesn't come, the play closes. The Taper audience has been nurtured to wait with plays from their beginning...
...Zoetrope Studios riding on this crapshoot, it may be difficult for audiences and critics to pay attention to what is on the screen. So imagine that you are in Radio City Music Hall-not in 1982, with all attendant fanfare, but in, say, 1941, when moviegoing was a habit and not an event-cozying yourself into a plush orchestra seat with your date, your popcorn and modest expectations. Here it comes: One from the Heart. Just a movie. What...
...unemployment rate: 8.9%. Everyone who hears that percentage will know it is fraught with troublesome forebodings. Yet the modern habit of mistaking statistics for reality makes it easy to overlook the fact that the rate stands for an indigestibly large number of individuals- 9.5 million. Each point in the unemployment rate also represents, as the President explained last month, roughly $19 billion in potential but lost federal revenues, plus some $6 billion in financial assistance that the Government disburse jobless. Such statistical and elaborations usefully suggest the vast scope of unemployment and its staggering cost in both forfeited wealth...
...British Comic Terry-Thomas is ideally cast as the reader of two "Jeeves" tales by P.G. Wodehouse (Caedmon; $12.95). Ariel, a new label, offers, among others, Humphrey Bogart as Hotspur in Henry IV on its two-volume Shakespeare in Hollywood set. And for those who cannot break the information habit, Books on Tape offers Newstrack, a bimonthly 90-minute talking magazine-garnered from the pages of TIME and other publications-for $195 per year...