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...Jona" is the first nickname I can remember. I never objected when Mom or Dad said "Jona," for they wee shortening my name in an affectionate sort of way. But it sure did drive me bonkers when my two little sisters teased and pestered me with it. Soon, relatives an family friends joined the part. Oh well. I decided to grin and bear...
...School for Wives, like Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, deals with the themes of romantic intrigue and thwarted intentions. The play tells the comic story of a wealthy old suitor, Arnolphe (Jona Sacks) whose efforts to marry the lovely young Agnes (Carolyn Rendell) are bested by Horace (Chris Javornik), the handsome charmer whom Agnes adores. Unfortunately, Horace does not know that he and Arnolphe share a common interest, and he unwittingly confides in his wealthy opponent. Arnolphe, stubborn in tradition and beliefs, sequesters Agnes and attempts to sabotage Horace's plans...
...fine pieces go to pot. "I absolutely refuse to melt down nice materials," says Jona than Hefferlin, the owner of Jonathons Coin in Los Angeles. From the daily glut, his wife picks out the valuable objects for resale. But at Manhattan's Empire Diamond & Gold Buying Service, where the queues form two hours before the store opens, almost everything goes to the smelter. Says Owner Jack Brod, who bought a Spanish-American War medal for its weight and paid only $75: "We might get more from a collector, but it's not worth looking for one or waiting...
...learn, for example, that "to this day ... the U.S. government has never officially acknowledged that Americans [two captured Navy flyers] were killed at Hiroshima." Determined to avoid any tendentiousness, Sherwin is sometimes too cautious in presenting his insights, which are numerous but tucked away. The modesty is misplaced. Jona than Swift once observed, "the greatest inventions were produced in times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gun powder, printing." To that list of dark times must be added the 1940s; to the list of new devices, atomic weapons. A World Destroyed does much to explain the invention...
Throughout the conversation, I seemed to detect beneath a superficial cynicism a nostalgia for the past. Jona than Kramer sounded very much like Dickens' Father Time, or like the aged child-cynic, a bitter girl in late adolescence, wishing desperately she could recapture virgin innocence...