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...discover and interpret the newest uses and abuses of the flag, TIME'S correspondents interviewed Americans of every age and calling. In Atlanta, Joyce Leviton talked to James Wilson, a talented black craftsman who had invented a flagstaff for auditoriums, embodying a concealed fan to make the flag ripple. He did this, he explained, because of his pride in the flag-"It looks better flying than hanging limply from the flagpole." For Washington's Paul Hathaway, searching out the meaning of the flag was an elusive assignment. "You take the flag for granted for so long that...
Right now, your breathing and my speech have a pattern to them and if we were outside of ourselves, listening. we could interpret something about how and why things were going as they were just from the rhythmic sense of what's you. That kind of consideration was made repeatedly, over and over and over again, as we worked on the piece. We tried also to look at what is actual, like at the simplest level, there are two men talking to each other, talking to two other people in trashcans, sometimes talking to the audience. sometimes talking to themselves...
...than a few-most dissenters turn to violence in a desperate effort to communicate their profound feelings of grievance. Yet surely this is too crude a way to get their message across. A bomb, for example, lacks specificity; its meaning is as scattered as its debris. Some people may interpret such an act as a signal to pay more attention to the protester and his cause; many more are likely to read into it a need to make life a lot tougher for the protester. Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness...
...becomes an authentically possessed figure. On the slow numbers, the words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does not interpret the songs, she becomes their owner-and their tenant. In Carousel, she sings in a lazy, wheeling style-until suddenly the merry-go-round lurches out of control. The carousel spins elliptically, dangerously, until the singer reaches an unbearable frenzy -and shatters. Audiences that witness such tours de force know what...
...possible to interpret such passages as pleas for reforms that the U.S. must undertake in order to forestall more bitterness and violence. In fact, Douglas urges "political regeneration," not revolution. But the book's perfervid tone and fuzzy phrasing-hardly appropriate from a Supreme Court Justice-garble the message. Ford declared that the book, coming "at a critical time in our history when peace and order are what we need, is less than judicial good behavior...