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...military alliance. The scripts have been largely written and surprises are unlikely. But as Christoph Bertram, the dean of German security experts, recently noted, the affair will be "like a Christmas service for agnostics, who for most of the year do not pray together or sing from the same hymnbook." The question of what the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should do and become has been a subject of often deep disagreement since the Warsaw Pact dissolved in 1991. Here's a snapshot of where the alliance stands today...
Fast-forward to the 1992 campaign and suddenly almost the entire field of challengers -- from Pat Buchanan on the Republican right to Senator Tom Harkin on the Democratic left -- is singing out of the old Connally hymnbook. An artfully contrived TV spot depicts Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey guarding a hockey net while warning the Japanese that "if we can't sell in their market, they can't sell in ours." Harkin vows to send a similarly shrill message to Tokyo: "We're going to reduce our trade deficit with you, Japan, down to zero in five years. Two ways...
Jesse Jackson, a D.L.C. pariah, was invited to speak this year. His hymnbook has been anathema to this crowd (whom he once branded "Democrats for the leisure class"), but their plan to stop Jackson on Super Tuesday in 1988 failed so miserably that they may have to face the prospect of Jackson preaching to a crossover audience. In the meantime, with its teeny, tiny programs designed to assure voters that Democrats are as committed to life, liberty and the pursuit of an upwardly mobile life-style as Republicans, the D.L.C. is rewriting the lyrics of the 1960s song...
...little girl on a drug trip. Cherry sets William Inge's Bus Stop to music, and Yellow Drum, based on Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, reiterates Broadway's faith that a weak play sounds better set to music. Robert Shaw will star in the hymnbook version of Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis' novel about a corrupt evangelist. Fellini's film La Strada is being unspooled, as is All About Eve (stage title: Applause, Applause!), starring Lauren Bacall as Adam's fetching...
...they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."--Selection Eight-Four of the Hymnbook...