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...salute for your straight reporting of Mrs. Kennedy's costumes on her trip abroad. Thank heavens she has enough respect for herself, her position and country to undertake the most tiresome chore of fittings, hairdressers, etc. Selecting something "off the rack" and pin-curling her hair before retiring would have been less bothersome. Regarding her purchase of a French costume, it was a fine diplomatic gesture toward an ally who has proved most difficult. And lest we forget, Jackie's clothes did not make her; she enhanced them...
...world's other great libraries, which believe in the closed-door policy, the New York Public Library delivers books to anyone in ten minutes flat. Each day it answers 10,000 questions-over the counter, by mail and by phone-and for the answers it can rack its brain in 3,000 languages, including 600 African dialects...
...most expensive room in the house, and they want to show their friends where their money went." For Cinemactor Charlton (BenHur) Heston, Beckett designed a bathroom with a huge sunken Roman tub, dressing rooms, steam room, and a small outdoor gymnasium. Other Beckett bathrooms have magazine racks, telephones, sun lamps over the sink and reading lamps over the toilet. For Jules Stein, chairman of the huge M.C.A. talent agency, Beckett provided his master touch: a special rack for toothbrushes, one for each day of the week, each cleaned by ultraviolet light...
...Isosceles Triangles. Gone is the familiar desk to stash books and apple cores; each pupil every morning picks a plastic "tote tray" from a central rack. The kids hustle about all day in a bewildering variety of changes. Even the furniture arrangement is unpredictable. "They might be seated in rows, circles, squares or even isosceles triangles," says one teacher. "Or that day they might just want to clump around my desk...
Social Chance. Brecht begins where Lear ends: the world is a rack on which mankind is tortured. A character in one of the plays is asked to recite what is called the short catechism-"it'll get worse, it'll get worse, it'll get worse." Starting thus, Brecht might have developed a tragic sense, but he apparently balked at three basic elements of tragedy-the idea of inevitability, human guilt, and the tragic hero. In Brecht's plays, G.O.D. is indeed just a word, and Fate becomes the blind workings of social chance...