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...summer recess, the nine Justices announced that they would not reconsider their ruling of last July upholding the constitutionality of capital-punishment murder statutes in the three states.* The Justices forthwith lifted a stay that had been in effect since July, and put 183 convicted killers in immediate peril of their lives...
Musical comedies ignore that fact at their peril. John O'Hara's book has the spine of a skyscraper, with big-city sleaziness reflected in every panel of the glass-curtain wall. This is a Brechtian book in which a small-time heel, Joey (Christopher Chadman), with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, is letched onto by a rich, man-eating tigress named Vera (Joan Copeland), who loves him enough to stake him to a night club, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave...
...smoldering ruins of Soweto-a satellite township for nearly 1 million blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg-sporadic rioting broke out in neighboring ghettos and in black suburbs near Pretoria. In both cities, whites rushed to buy arms and ammunition for protection against the so-called swart gevaar (black peril) -although at no time were any white communities threatened...
...this time of patriotism and peril, it may seem frivolous to report on the state of art. But since few lands have ever achieved greatness without producing a great art, Americans should realize that their prospects are none too bright. Indeed, the most dexterous of our artists have already departed for London to make their fortunes there...
...power. In a state of absolute liberty, the strong man will always be more equal than the weak man. By curbing liberties, a monarch, ironically, may be expanding equality, protecting the weak against the strong and ensuring that both have their time in the sun. Perhaps the greatest peril to the future of the American experiment is that contending groups, properly encouraged to strive for their selfinterest, will do so with such heedless vehemence that the needs of society as a whole will be forgotten...