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Grand Illusion. Ironically, notes a Detroit restaurateur, a well-known stiff often gets better service than a mark, because he is considered a challenge, and waitresses will do everything but tuck his napkin under his chin to see if he can be unstiffened. This points to the larger fact that...
Since Fanfani took over last year, Italy's postwar economic renaissance has boomed faster than ever. National output rose 7% last year, investment 20%, consumer demand 10%. Italy has curbed inflation and made the lira good as gold, piled up some $3 billion in balance-of-payments credits. TV...
All exits are either barricaded or booby-trapped. A rumor of gas causes mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his...
It is this kaleidoscopic use of attitudes that Genet substitutes for action; and it is his shifting, jarring, distorting, disrupting color effects that constitute his theatrical thrusts. What most flares and flashes is a scathing, mocking Negro anger toward the whites. Where in Genet's The Balcony men act...
Even worse, says Mayer, is the "general agreement" that "only a small fraction of children are truly educable on the secondary level." This is an illusion, owing to overreliance on IQ scores, which in fact can be raised by training. An example is New York City's "Higher Horizons...