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...Often, there is a rush to find guilt. Along the way, they deprive defendants of any presumption of innocence. There's a conscious effort to go after anyone big. The only place John De Lorean could get a fair trial would be in a monastery with twelve deaf-mute monks. There's a tendency to overexpose our leaders. Anybody who wants to be a public figure these days is crazy. It's open season on all of them. There's a need for heroes and leaders, but we cut them down too readily. What you really...
...mandate from the American people, though it was elected by a slim margin. Administration officials also said that the half-million protestors in Central Park last year would not impact its nuclear arms policy, holding that elections are when we make choices. Are we then to be mute, wide-eyed observers, pulling a lever every four years...
...schoolboy fare, too much like an inserted set-piece; finally there is the massacre which turns Willie's mother to alcohol and then suicide. This leads to an act of revenge that forces him to remain abroad for most of his life, and which drives his first inquisitive, then mute daughter into a saintly insanity...
...first scene opens in an Air Force wardroom which looks suspiciously like a grammar school classroom. The typical company--by now a familiar fixture in anti-war plays--consists of mute "idiots" and insubordinate and sharp-witted soldiers who clown around until, inevitably, one of them dies. As the characters have been seen before, the lines, too, have a certained hackneyed ring: "We're a peace-loving people and that's why we are going to bomb Constantinople off the map." "It's not our's to reason why. It's yours to do as you're told...
There is no certainty that it can pass, however, and so the commission may after all expire on schedule by month's end. If so, it will die mute. Since a quorum of four is needed to transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's firings cannot even convene an official meeting. Nor, among other things, can they even formally issue a report, drafted in October, that complains that the Administration's budget and staff cuts have hamstrung the enforcement of equal rights laws...