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...FREQUENT BEST, playwright Sam Shepard uses grisly explorations of family frictions and anxieties to roil up the audience in the way every good dramatist should. The Curse of the Starving Class, the last of a stark family-history trilogy, abounds in this desired therapeutic grittiness. Its characters' unpleasantness produce just the kind of irksome self-questioning and squirming that Aristotle prescribed 1500 years ago, the kind that makes going to the theater more than just entertainment. In Curse, only occasionally do Shepard, and the generally able troupe presenting it at the Loeb, stumble out of the realm of theatrical effectiveness...
Once again, moreover, the man on the spot is Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, whose 13-month-old effort to wrestle down inflation by gaining firm control of the money supply has helped roil up interest rates and keep the economy off balance. In recent months, Volcker has come under attack from the left and the right. While liberals accuse him of being too zealous in his struggle to hold the growth of money to below 6½% during 1980, conservatives have rapped Volcker for consistently failing to hit his target...
These idees fixes roil about in his brain and sprawl over page after page, until Percy decides to wrap it all together in one crystal-clear passage...
These idees fixes roil about in his brain and sprawl over page after page, until Percy decides to wrap it all together in one crystal-clear passage...
These idees fixes roil about in his brain and sprawl over page after page, until Percy decides to wrap it all together in one crystal-clear passage...