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Last year at about this time, nnance officials and other administrators began to hint that undergraduate tuition would jump more than 10 per cent for the current academic year--a frightening prospect cushioned only by the hope that the sharp rise was exceptional...
...inertia, inactivity and self-delusion, along with the larger failing of society and its moral codes, that quietly but firmly crushes the spirit of most of the characters. And much of this is revealed through monologues, often masquerading as dialogue, through intimate confessions and tiny confrontations that only hint at the inner explosions. The audience should be close enough to see its reflection in the water of their eyes, or--if that is too sentimental for you--to feel as a hurricane the very gentle breeze of a clenched fist being relaxed...
...will, very much as normal. Sooner rather than later, though, the danger will become apparent, a danger so contrary it manifests itself in believable ways only when it becomes too powerful to be checked. The lights will not turn off all at once some morning, but the newspapers will hint at it, and soon there'll be a crisis that they'll have to put on television...
...Carter. But how do we get there? Our Government no longer works, and for four years Carter has proved it; yet he offered not one shred of evidence how he would improve his record, given a second lease on the White House. Nor did Reagan provide the slightest hint of how he might design an Administration that would get off the ground...
...loons flutter at the edge of the lake as only loons can, quiet and watchful, cautious, craning their necks and rolling their eyes at the merest hint of danger. Joe ignores the loons, they will die or disappear and he will live. He will go on the road, bear the blue yoke of America's heartland, deceive and be deceived, lose everything he has and keep everything he wants...