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...could take a month or more for the old shows to return with new episodes. In the interim, viewers can choose among "specials" and series from the commercial networks and PBS that will instruct, provoke and entertain in intelligent new ways. For the next few weeks, TV will mute its role as electronic babysitter and engage the viewer in adult conversation. En garde, sitcommers and real people! The spirit could be catching...
Very few argue Cambridge shouldn't or can't encourage industrial development in the city. The form of those incentives and their effects may spark debate, but the need for new income and jobs will mute that controversy. "Idealistically, in ten to 15 years, what we will see is a very strong tax base with the neighborhoods intact," Vickery says...
These exemplars have not caused the author to mute his own polemic. He was, after all, a student and friend of Philosopher John Dewey, and the disciple adheres to the master's dictum: human freedoms can be extended only by the arts of intelligence. In Philosophy and Public Policy, that intelligence oscillates between civility and perversity. "The Hero in History" summarizes his brilliant division of the "event-making" men who redirect history (Lenin, Peter the Great) and "eventful" men (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) who are overtaken by circumstance. Yet his call for a corrective to the country...
...Medium opens on a black stage with a bare table, and some white gauze sheets hanging from the ceiling. Monica, the Medium's daughter (Katharine J. Kean) stands in her mother's salon, dressed in white, singing to her mute friend, Toby (Joseph Lee). The fun stops when Baba (Belle Linda Halpern) enters. This room and stage are clearly hers. Her dark eyebrows and dress match the black floors. In preparation for the sham seance. Monica hides behind a gauze screen where she can be the false voice of dead spirits, while Baba seats herself at the table...
...without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag Youth Against War and Fascism. "1,2,3,4, We Don't Want Your Fucking War. 5,6,7,8 We Won't Even Registrate." The wind lends a frantic quality to the scene. The public address system, mute at this staging rally, forces organizers to scurry back and forth with bullhorns, trying to line people up. "What's that black flag for?" an unaffiliated student asks another young man. "Anarchy, man." "Oh, Anarchy, yeah, that's cool." It is not a situation that lends itself to organization...