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...something up his sleeve. "You don't negotiate until you have to," says a G.O.P. leader. "There is no alternative from Congress yet." Reagan has been uncharacteristically careful with words. When Senator Pete Domenici made his budget proposals at the White House, Reagan gave no hint of his feelings. "Thank you very much," he said, and moved on to other business...
Brezhnev was clearly fishing for some hint of American acquiescence in a Soviet pre-emptive attack. I gave no encouragement; my bland response was that the growth of China was one of those problems that underlined the importance of settling disputes peacefully. Brezhnev returned to his preoccupation. China's growing might was a menace to everybody. Any military assistance by the U.S. would lead to war. I warned that history proved America would not be indifferent to an attack on China. (The next day the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, stressed that the China portion...
What do these people do, mostly? They talk. What is the play about, possibly? Birth and copulation and death (all offstage). This is not the only hint of T.S. Eliot's influence on Harold Pinter, since a good many of the lines have the weary, dying fall of Eliot's poems. Always in Pinter, the dialogue is the drama, and it follows a threefold pattern. The source of the first is his fondness for vaudeville, a predilection he shares with Samuel Beckett, a playwright Pinter vastly admires. The second is the inquisitorial mode: a character is grilled, mocked...
...other works, a spontaneous riff on some people, places and things that have appeared elsewhere in Cheever's fiction. The hero could be (but is not) one of those stubborn old Yankee Wapshots. The settings range from New York City to a declining country village, with the hint of suburban Bullet Parks and Shady Hills sprawling in between. And the plot is a Cheeverian amalgam of unexpected violence and grace...
...opportunity to hint at my recurrent nightmare: "One cannot have a crisis of authority in a society for a period of months without paying a price somewhere along the line...