Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shillings in Britain, the paper has a current circulation of 25,000. Who reads it? Gervase Markham, a Le Monde director, says: "University professors, students, Francophiles, diplomats, government officials, businessmen, journalists, people in the art world. Anyone who wants to know how the most serious newspaper in France looks at an event. And a lot of others who simply can't cope with Le Monde in French...
When a tragic hero is blinded, he assumes the grandeur of Oedipus; when a comic hero is blinded, he becomes as ludicrous as a mole. Moliere, the most serious writer of comedy who ever lived, took just such a blind mole and made him the mock hero of The Miser. Harpagon (Robert Symonds) has a singular obsession-money. Like most obsessions, it is not magnificent but malignant. It allows the great 17th century French dramatist to make a central moral point-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Harpagon is blind to his children's hope...
...current $79 billion Pentagon budget could decline by $7 billion in 1970 and by $13 billion in 1971. Since about one-third of the demobilized G.I.s would be going back to school, the labor force would have to absorb only some 600,000 new members-not enough to pose serious employment problems...
...side is "the great community of the mugs," also known as yobbos, taxpayers and sordids. They are all those sober, serious folk who "just don't want to know" but who live in the illusion that they are the real inhabitants of London. On the other side, opposed to the mugs, are spades, teenagers, whores and their ponces and pimps, coppers and their narks, junkies, gangsters black and white, seamen, Asians, layabouts and homosexuals. They are natives of the swinging London that no tourist sees, the ever-shifting, dodge-through-it city on a salt estuary, rich...
Maclnnes' ear for the issues is sound too. His robust sympathies never crush his judgment. Beneath the charm and humor, sadness lurks. Mr. Karl Marx Bo says, looking around the Moonbeam club: "Serious individual as I am, I cannot always resist the lure of a little imitation joy." By the end, the tinsel has peeled for Johnny Fortune. After a police frame-up and a month in jail on a marijuana charge, he sets out to join his family in Lagos-full of shame and defiance: "Let them kill every Spade that's in the world, and leave...