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...Scientific American may do more to prevent an anti-ballistic missile system (which will almost certainly make the world less safe) than a cyanide referendum at Brown. But such articles have been published, and the present administration still intends to develop defensive weapons. It is still within the realm of reason that popular protest can lead us out of the present statement, that it can deliver us from beliefs and a world-view dominated by nuclear weapons. The process will be a slow one, perhaps an agonizing one. But amidst foolishness and camp, the Brown students have reminded...
...then, an astonishing apparition: the glass capsule abruptly whooshed the Reagans-still waving-skyward, as if it were speeding them back up into the clouds, back into the fleecy, mythic realm from which they had come. A hallucination out of Erich Von Daniken: Elevators of the Gods...
...state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
FAIRY tales live on in the Boston Ballet's current production of Giselle. Set in a small country village bursting with perky, good-natured peasants, we seem to have entered the realm of the idyllic, bucolic life. All is merry for a time, while the villagers laugh, socialize and celebrate the harvest. But unfortunately this story is not fated to have the traditional "and they all lived happily ever after" ending. Instead, the village is transposed into a gloomy woodland scene inhabited by ghostly, spiteful women. A nightmare replaces the fairy tale...
...think people who hold power in the public realm tend to want to subvert other forms of discourse. This seems to be built into the power structure. And religious organizations are notoriously hard to control--they're decentralized, and they suffuse the society. It's not incidental that totalitarianistic societies try to control the churches, the press, and the universities...