Word: pas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bewailing the Carter Administration's lack of "class" [March 6] bewildered me. Typical it was, however, of today's obsession with form over essence. I'll allow Ham Jordan his pyramidal fantasies if he and his "classless" Georgians spare us from an international faux pas as calamitous as the Viet Nam one. Enough of the Best and Brightest...
...Charlie's teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum of privacy." The play proceeds by anecdotes and episodes, some funny, some sad, all telling. Leonard makes the pas sage of time itself a major character in Da. What time does for Charlie is to make him realize that what he yearns to do-exorcise the past-is not only impossible but self-defeating. He is bonded to what he wishes to sunder. Like all of humankind, he belongs...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S DECISION to fire David W. Marston, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, reeks of more than just political patronage and forgotten campaign promises. It is one in a series of White House faux pas that produce indignation on the part of all Americans regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. As one observer of Philadelphia politics told a national magazine last week, "It's frightening. He (Carter) doesn't even know what's going on here--and he's supposed to be dealing with the Russians and the Chinese...
...coat. You have to move around in it awhile before it is comfortable." Not too long, however. Balanchine began with a structure for Ballo, but no steps. Says Ashley: "He wears these clunky shoes and does funny things with his feet. Then you move and he looks. My pas de deux took about an hour to work out, my variation a half-hour. Sometimes he would say, 'No one can do that step, so we will do it.' Well, sometimes we didn...
...writing that can survive such pas sages deserves attention. Those who keep hoping that McHale.will return to the exuberant comedy and middle-class Catholic characters of his first two novels, Principato and Farragan's Retreat, will again be disappointed. McHale seems stubbornly determined not to repeat ear lier successes. In that respect, at least, The Lady from Boston succeeds. The novel will vex those who expect their reading matter to carry the freight of coherent meaning. Those who do not mind the voyeuristic experience of being interested but not concerned will find it a lot easier to take McHale...