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Greenlining's greatest success so far has been achieved in Chicago's South Shore area, onetime haven of the city's white elite, now home for a black mostly working-class population. After losing $36 million in deposits within five years, the South Shore National Bank was considering relocating its headquarters - and assets - outside the community...
...this particular shore leave Harry has undergone a sea change, and out of that change and its effects 38-year-old "James Irwin" (actually Edward J. Moore under a pseudonym) has fashioned a first play that is robust, touching, funny and nakedly honest. The Sea Horse divides neatly into two parts that might be subtitled "Spar and Tell." The first act is a land of sexual scrimmage with earthy roughhousing on Gert's part and some wild and woozy comic foolery on Harry's. The tone is that of a mating between Steinbeck and Saroyan...
Across the finish line the Crimson crew looked strangely isolated on the water, away from its admirers, waving in the general direction of the shore, the oarsmen in those strangely varied postures of the post-race moment, some leaning over their oars in exhaustion, some nearly lying down in the boat...
Anyone who thinks there isn't enough oil to be found to increase production ought to research the estimates of oil available from Alaska, off-shore fields, tar sands, shale, coal, and old oil wells. The oil can be found if there is an incentive to find...
...went on: "You haven't taken into account the missiles which the enemy would certainly be using against you from his shore defenses and from missile-launching planes. We have such a system ourselves, so surely the other side has it too. It's terribly dangerous to underestimate your enemy's capabilities...