Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia Sir: What Pope Paul says, in effect, is that if a family has the affluence and physical stamina for child after child, why, let them enjoy reproducing themselves. If, however, a family is poverty-stricken, living in desolation and illness, where a new life might face starvation, why, just add "no sex" to its already deprived existence. However, do not abstain for too long. Duty binds to take yet another whack at producing yet another malnutrition victim...
...with Dzu. "What I'm saying," he declared, "is that at a negotiating table, if you're really looking for a political settlement, you really have to make some concessions." McCarthy, by contrast, said that Dzu's imprisonment "signifies Saigon's complete unwillingness to discuss, let alone accept, the only reasonable terms on which the war is likely to be settled...
Powell added, however, "White people will let you know that they'll make concessions simply because they're aware that you go to Harvard. This in itself shows that they don't respect you for being a man, but for the little bit of education you have. The general attitude of the white people on this campus seems to be 'We don't respect you as a man; but your education has brought you a little respect...
...sickly goathorn whining offstage. Every time it sounded one expected a character from a P.G. Wodehouse musical to emerge saying "Your car is ready, Lord Wooster," or something. But that brings up a whole category of fun things you can do with Shakespeare, and we'd better let well enough alone...
Like most shows on the first leg of the road, this one carries excess baggage. Several of Drake's songs--"Just for Today," "In Vino Veritas," "Let Me Lead the Way," "The Things We Think We Are," and "The Parable of the Monkey"--have nothing going for them and should be ditched on that count. The first is corny, the second ludicrous, the third irrelevant, the fourth bad, and the fifth incomprehensible. By way of compensation, I'd suggest that if ever a name deserved to light a lyric, "Ftatateeta" does; that Caesar and Rufio might voice their contradictory opinions...