Word: inspectorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...
When he was a boy in Trenton, N.J., Edward Munson fell out of his tree house one day and cut his arm. Apparently the scar was lasting. Now, as building inspector for the rural Long Island town of Riverhead, N.Y., Munson, 53, has started a controversial campaign to make tree houses safer. Recently, after a Riverhead resident complained about an unsightly tree house, Munson began to require parents to obtain tree-house building permits, and issued a detailed set of specifications governing their construction: the houses must be no more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must...
...middle-class system chooses not to ignore the Sawneys. Next door live the Jacksons, the clean little family who have just arrived in the lower middle class and who are always irritating the Sawneys. The bobbies are always poking around, and the building inspector keeps checking up on the march of decay that is sweeping over the Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State...
...difficulty with cultural outposts of this sort is that audiences begin to equate their dutifulness with pleasure, and actors and directors tend to become bureaucratic keepers of tinier and tinier dramatic flames. That may be why the Stratford players perform best in a 19th century provincial satire, The Government Inspector, almost as if the bizarre Russian genius Nikolai Gogol had jolted them with a shock of local recognition...
...Supreme Court majority said yes, householders can be prosecuted for rebuffing a common kind of warrantless search: routine checks by fire, health, housing or other administrative inspectors. Last week the 1959 majority became the minority as six Justices said no, inspectors must get search warrants when Americans balk at letting their homes or businesses be checked. In one case, San Francisco Bookstore Owner Roland Camara had admittedly violated the city housing code by living in the rear of his store. In 1963, Camara was arrested for refusing to let a housing inspector see the premises without a warrant; last week...