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...TASK BEFORE THE MOAKLEY people is enormous: they've got to persuade people who for years have walked into a voting booth and automatically pulled the Democratic lever that (a) there are other candidates on the ballot and (b) voting for an Independent is not a mortal sin. To do this, Moakley volunteers have canvassed the district and plan to be at every poll passing out information tomorrow...
...seen, let alone heard. There are no families, only menages of bright, brittle and bizarre people for whom life is one long marvelous party. His is a hermetic world sealed against headlines, problems and pain, and most of all against boredom, which to Coward is the eighth deadly sin...
...Bertolt Brecht. Between them they fashioned a dramatic rhetoric of music and lyrics that moved with deceptive ease from the beat of the goose step to the glide of the tango. Decadence was their target, but they were half in love with what they hated; Weill could decant sin from a saxophone. The music that he later composed in the U.S. somehow lacks that moral bite that Brecht inspired...
When Shaw did get personal, he was apt to be insulting. He declared to Henry James: "It is really a damnable sin to draw with such consummate art a houseful of rubbish." After passing on his post as drama critic of London's Saturday Review to Max Beerbohm, he panned him ferociously. Beerbohm annoyed the master by observing that Shaw honestly believed that logic, not passion, made the world go round. How vulnerable G.B.S. the puritan superra-tionalist seems today in his rebuttal, waffling on about something he called "Reasonable Emotion...
...Artisans. At this point-the crucial point of the manifesto-Roszak becomes vague. To be overly specific, he suggests, would be to commit the sin of "single-vision" rationalism that he objects to. So he runs on about "a drastic scaling down and decentralizing," a "massive de-urbanization." He proposes making "antigrowth" a positive value. He suggests a new economics of "low-consumption" based on "kinship, friendship, cooperation." If they are not paralyzed by cynicism or timidity, a saving remnant of "hip artisans," "ecological activists," "people's architects" and "dropped-out professionals" will find their way back to Arcadia...