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Eidenberg said yesterday his study group will "look at where politics and policy intersect." The guests will provide their "own specific perspectives on the Carter presidency," he added...
Transit charts six major characters as they journey through the space of thirty years. They intersect, gravitate around each other, spin away into lonely emptiness while a dozen minor characters drift around these central constellations. They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...
Politics and culture intersect somewhere in all societies, but in 19th century Vienna they positively embraced. That alone made the city unusual. The middle-class liberals who gained parliamentary control in the 1860s were ingenuously industrious and earnest...
Besides, in democratic process, there is a constant interaction between leaders and led, between the people's mood and the politician's watchful calculation of it. The two intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...
Some plays are the comic books of the theater. All of their characters are caricatures. Their situations have the labeled banality of canned clichés. The dialogue is Cro-Magnon English. In scene after scene the ludicrous and the dreadful intersect at some flash point where the playgoer's ribs collapse in implausible laughter...