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Our old friends illusion and reality are back in town, popping up in a couple of wildly different one-act plays at the Loeb Ex. One play looks for insights, the other for laughs, and the comedy wins by a wide margin.
Until it exploded in 1965, Watts was America's most under-publicized slum. Largely this lack of notice stemmed from the fact that Watts does not strike the eye in the same way that Bedford-Stuyvesant, Columbia Point, or Hough does. Absent is the visual oppressiveness of old six-story...
In this haphazard world we are killing ourselves and each other. It would be worth sacrificing the pleasant illusion of freedom if we could be assured that nobody would be using his "freedom" to kill other human beings who somehow couldn't manage the "freedom" to stay alive.
The IMF delegates cannot merely patch up the Bretton Woods system of fixed prices for every currency, based on a fixed relationship between the dollar and gold. President Nixon shattered that illusion on Aug. 15, when he announced that the U.S. would stop selling gold to redeem foreign-held dollars...
Eventually one wonders if there is not a little Flying Wallenda in Author Mosley-a lot of skill and daring and not a little wobble. The unsatisfied muse, Natalie, might point out that there are too many attenuated aperçus here and too big an aesthetic load weighing on...