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During the ten scene changes, an overhead loud-speaker rasps out a scratchy medley of forties dance tunes. They sound as quaint and old-fashioned as the message of the play and they remain interesting for a while. But, as the play reminds us, being interesting is not enough...
...descends along the zig-zag road that hugs the rocky slope, the hovels give way to slightly more sturdy but still miserable houses, crowded together on filthy unpaved alleys. Eucalyptus trees begin to appear. Then the bus descends further into the more solidly-built portion of the city, with quaint two- and three-story pensions and humble eating places crowding the paved streets, along with small shops selling clothes, stationery and cheap appliances. Large churches open up on concrete plazas. Here the streets are less steep, and the air is noticeably warmer than it was at the top. The narrow...
...rare occasions, the past can be not only recalled but recaptured. Exactly 100 years ago next week, the elder daughter of Horace Greeley, 19th century journalistic war horse and founder-publisher of the New York Tribune, filled a ten-inch-square brass box with quaint mementos of her era and saw the box sealed within the cornerstone of the Tribune's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan. When that building was demolished in 1968, the time capsule was found and kept by the wrecker until late last year, when he brought it to a dealer to sell. The solid brass...
...Marshall Plan. He tends to be stronger at invoking duty than at discussing practical details. But his insistence that the U.S. must try to do out of a sense of responsibility what once it tried to do out of a sense of ambition is gallant as well as quaint. Can post-Viet Nam America manage what he asks, even if it is willing? Corson is really certain of only one thing: if Americans survive by meaner stratagems, their lives will not be worth living...
...idea is perhaps politically valid in a quaint sort of way, but was pretty well rendered moot for the U.S. by the unpleasantness at Concord and Valley Forge in the 1770s. All things considered, Americans prefer the stability of a system combining the functions of real and symbolic leader in one person and one office. It is part of the scale of the original American experiment, asking much of its citizens and those they elect...