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...elderly," "generally (not always) comfortable," with some rooms that "are horribly cramped and inadequate." Included was a typical Fielding tip: "One infuriated Guidester warns that every voyager should always check against being short-changed in the dining room here. (In fairness, we gave it a test on our latest Brown's Derby, and our bill was impeccable.)" At that, the assistant manager unbent. "You imply we are a bunch of rogues!" he stormed. "You say one thing and then the other. It seems to me you could have saved the space...
...reparations for evil deeds of the past, infest the modern theater. If one were really to believe Hochhuth (The Deputy), Weiss (The Investigation) and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy), one would conclude that the playgoer is responsible for every human crime and flaw since Adam ate the apple. The latest playwright to join this tiresome mea culpa crew is Arthur Kopit. His play Indians argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins, a heady bit of information...
...fear of inflation has been heightened by the enormous increase in the country's financial reserves. During the latest money crisis last month, $4¼ billion in francs, pounds, dollars and other foreign funds flowed into Germany. As of last week, almost $3 billion of it was still there. The influx has not only overinflated Germany's money supply but depressed the monetary reserves of France and Britain...
...latest bulge in Germany's foreign trade started three years ago, when a credit squeeze followed by a recession shrank domestic demand. In response, German businessmen turned to aggressive selling abroad. The economy soon rebounded, but recession-cut German prices never caught up with those in other countries. For industrial products, Germany's principal exports, many prices not only failed to rise but actually fell. Retail prices of electric ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, watches and TV sets declined slightly in the past year. The 2½% increase in the consumer price index over the twelve months through last...
During her latest visit to Illyria, Janet settles down to a pallid little ghost story, only to be distracted by a long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...