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Even should Dirksen line up the required 34 states, however, there is no certainty that a convention would ever meet. Some critics note that the petitions are invalid because they are not identical. Others point out that some of the legislatures that approved them have since been reapportioned, and that the petitions may thus be worthless...
...dime of which can be traced in the amateur-night stagecraft of its cast and directors. Last week the N.R.T. appeared on Broadway with dramatic choices that were varied in content yet reflected the standard repertory mentality: combine one old classic (Molière's The Imaginary Invalid) with one serious American play (O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet) and sandwich in a filler of froth (Noel Coward's Tonight...
...N.R.T. stooped to conquer Molière by condescension. Rarely trusting the playwright's lines to speak for themselves, the company gimmicked up the play with whoops and simpers, vaudeville pratfalls and putty noses. Invalid takes off after doctors and their gullible patients with a Shavian vengeance. But Molière's prey is not his purpose. Like all masters of high comedy, he essentially diagnoses man's incurable diseases-vanity, pretension and folly. The bell-capped revelers of the N.R.T. are blind to this underlying gravity...
Policy & Performance. In recent weeks the indicators have been moving unmistakably upward. Housing, the great industrial invalid of 1966, has begun to recuperate (see following story). Retail sales have revived, partly because of an early Easter and strong March department-store sales but mostly because the U.S. consumer has replenished his savings and is spending again. Unemployment, in spite of a dip in the factory work week, has failed to increase, and, in the most reassuring indication of all, Ackley pointed out that "we have been encouraged by the apparent speed of the inventory adjustment, with accumulation actually falling...
...about economics expressed in this critique be adopted as the new dogma of Ec 1, but rather that they be considered legitimate subjects of debate. We feel that many of the alleged scientific economic principles presented are actually theories disputable both on empirical grounds and on the grounds of invalid or questionable assumptions they make. Since most of these theories have important political implications, we suggest that discussions about them be included on the reading list. It also seems to us that certain other questions which may legitimately be considered important economic issues are left out of Ec 1 altogether...