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Obviously, what should be counted In arriving at the overall unemployment figure is debatable. But the mam value of the monthly figures is in what they say about the direction in which unemployment is going. What those figures showed last week was that the recent sharp rise in the unemployment rate had come to a merciful, if temporary pause -but at a record high level...
...MAM's first act is too long--it goes on for two hours. All this time is spent working out the details of a plot which is meant to be too involved for me to be able to summarize it. But this isn't the kind of force in which the structure of the plot itself is the entertainment--doors constantly opening and closing: first one then two characters forced to hide in the closet. Here the plot is about as lissome as a set of steel girders on which to hang puns, blowing like so many colored handkerchiefs with...
...these works as the casual reader of Bartlett's could be expected to have. The move to Agassiz has made LaZebnik's theater less intimate, more like musical comedy. In Teeth he paid little serious attention to plot and wrote a bizarre kind of free association opens buits, MAM the must hardly accompanies the dialogues in all. Occasionally the first violin gets to put in a comment but the rest are silent...
...almost said "this kind of show", making it part of a category that couldn't even be considered when talking about The Teeth of Mons Herbers, which was sui generis in a way MAM isn't and doesn't try to be. But LaZebnik's next work--based on the assassination of James A. Garfield by a disgruntled office-seeker--might offer proof that success hasn't spoiled him. His talent is too original for us to be able to afford to lose...
...avoided: whether to take a leading role in bringing an increasingly prosperous Cuba back into the American community, or stand by while Latin American states re-establish diplomatic relations with Havana one by one on their own. Nixon had shied away from recognition of Cuba after Southern Senators, his mam support in the Senate, strongly opposed rapprochement with the Communist island...