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...with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind of production that Schoenberg's reputation could use more of. Even the sort of people who only played tennis with him could warm...
Willard M. Chandler, a staff assistant in the Office of Fiscal Services, said a memo from his superiors declaring that shorts are inappropriate for office wear was a personal slight...
...Declining consumer price increases in April and May fostered the hope that inflation had peaked and was on the way down. But in June consumer prices jumped back up by 1%, an annual rate of of 12.7%, despite a 1% decrease in the cost of gasoline and only a slight increase in food bills. The sharp price hike was caused largely by the 1.8% rise in housing costs. The latest increase throws into question the Administration's estimate that inflation will tail...
...jumble of scraps and remnants: a portion of Jarrell's master's thesis on A.E. Housman, articles on music, painting and sports cars, a touching tribute to War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, dozens of poetry and fiction reviews and a few pieces from Supermarket, now out of print. Slight as it is, the book still soars above the kind of contemporary criticism that, as Jarrell said, could have been written by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines...
...perennial concern--should a majority with a slight interest outweigh a minority with a large interest--can be solved here very easily. If young men are going to fight wars, give them some voice in deciding which wars are worth fighting. Let them "vote with their feet" by deciding when the situation merits volunteering for military duty. The record indicates this would protect America--in the first five days after Pearl Harbor, 15 million people signed up. The informal range of opinions sampled on the steps of the Lexington Post Office, however, indicates it might not protect the oil companies...