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...York not to finish drafting an international treaty at this session, because the Administration wanted to review its position. The move, coming just as the conference was about to open, was at least bad diplomatic manners: it startled and dismayed more than 1,000 delegates from 159 countries who lad hoped to wrap up at last a treaty that las been under negotiation for seven years. The treaty is not necessarily doomed. It is opposed by U.S. mining interests, which complain that it does not assure them access to seabed minerals, but favored by the Pentagon because it allows fleets...
...what makes them fear shedding their inhibitions. They just want to lose them. Sometimes Simon makes a young person laugh, but for the most part it's an empty kind of humor. His jokes don't work because the human toibles he satirizes have not been part of a lad's experience...
Narrated by many of the play's characters--most notably the clear-eyed, ironic Scholar Wu, who wanders around in portable stocks with a sign that says "Drunkard" draped around his neck--this is the tale of a decent, confused lad, whose body is "a tent of exile" from society. Scolded by his mother for his idleness. Aladdin is dispatched by a wicked magician to an enchanted cave, where he is to fetch a magic lamp. Aladdin winds up hanging onto the lamp, using its genie to help win the hand of a Sultan's beautiful daughter. The magician...
...less thoughtful hands the tale of Aladdin has been a dandy thriller, "an adolescent's dream of revenge," as Mayer points out in a program note. But Mayer eliminates much of the suspense: Aladdin's difficulties are solved handily by two genies, and the lad swiftly and stoically executes the evil magician, who has been drugged by the Princess. So what's the point? Aladdin, the Sultan explains at the end of the play, got lucky. But he measured up to his luck, he gave it a good home. Throughout the play. Aladdin's spirit is large and independent enough...
...thoughtfulness about personal situations and an unaffected directness in talking with "little people." On the same day that she has purposely discomfited a minister, she will stop and have a cup of tea with the Downing Street switchboard operators. At a recent Tory conference, a 15-year-old lad made a speech that was a great success. When he was brought to meet the Prime Minister, she first asked if he had called his mother to tell her how the speech went. When he said no, she fished out a tenpence coin from her purse and sent...