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Today the policy board, elected and appointed in 1972, has the cultural and occupational diversity of both of those before it. The 16 elected residents include three clergymen, a financial consultant, several welfare recipients, and one gas meter inspector. Frank Fraumeni, a 24-year-old former board chairman, now unemployed, received the most votes in neighborhood three. Father Currun was the most successful vote getter in neighborhood four. "But they put a ballot box in front of his church," Fraumeni says with a smile...
...Birdboot's moral outrage at other critic's criticism of his rather intense interest in a new actress each opening night. All I know is that one feels it wise to be on one's best critical behavior, for safety's sake, in inspecting a play like The Real Inspector Hound...
...Stoppard's plots are so well devised, every funny line is so well ensconced in its context, that the critic is put in danger of being fooled himself, and looking the fool if he tries to put his hands on the heart of these plays. The only real inspector must be the spectator, on the scene...
...morning I got on the phone to Larry Casanova, a Puerto Rican lawyer in my club whom I recently placed in Mayor Beame's office as a special assistant. Mr. Casanova heard the problem and reacted quickly. He called the landlord and told him he would send a building inspector to Mrs. Negron's apartment if the hot water was not turned on within the day. Two hours after Mr. Casanova's phone call, Mrs. Negron came to the parish to report that she now had hot water...
These goings-on may be taken as the kind of crazy crime and panachement that Stoppard displayed so well in The Real Inspector Hound. But the playwright also offers a long, rambling monologue by Dotty's rumpled husband, George Moore. Moore is a professor of moral philosophy. In his office opposite Dotty's bedroom, he is busy dictating a discourse in defense of moral absolutes -in fact, of the whole idea of goodness and even the possibility of God's existence. "Is God?" he begins. But soon he is revising: "Are God?" Before long, Moore has fumblingly...