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...play and set in Charleston, S.C., Porgy is the story of a crippled beggar's unconquerable love for Bess, a lady of easy virtue. So strong is Porgy's passion that he kills his rival, Crown, and when Bess is whisked off to New York by the smooth-talking Sportin' Life, Porgy quixotically sets out after her in his goat cart. Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones and Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. Other composers...
...book Coming of Age in Samoa, as well as in later works. Mead has painted the Samoans as a gentle people for whom the seemingly universal pains of adolescence did not exist. Adolescence in Samoa was not filled with tension, delinquency, and misery, but with casual lovemaking and smooth and easy maturation. Mead's report led many to conclude that such a dislocating period in human development must be the result not of innate biological changes, but of the pressures which certain societies put on their members. In other words, Mead's work provided evidence that the time of growing...
...weaknesses of the Government's approach is the tendency of the agencies involved to squabble over prerogatives and credit. Communication is sometimes only intermittent. The task will be to develop smooth relationships between, say, the rough-and-ready DEA (one in 50 agents was shot at in 1981), which specializes in street stakeouts and gritty undercover work, and the green-eyeshade technocrats at the IRS, who delve into the esoteric evidence of drug peddlers' financial crimes. "Any prosecutor," says U.S. Attorney Walsh, "can tell you horror stories about information they didn't have because it was in the hands...
...fashion, like jeans," says Juan Carlos, a young Bogotá professional. "At our parties now, everyone just sucks smoke and gets selfabsorbed. The parties are spooky: no laughing, just puffing." Alberto Laverde, 27, is a smooth, smiling Bogotá hustler who dispenses cocaine at the local Wimpy hamburger bar. "Get into it," he encourages in accented English, sniffing up a bit of his pure product. "It's the flow of the apocalypse, man. You're king for a moment or even two. And you can be that again and again." Cocaine, sent off to the States to make money, has acquired American...
Having asserted that in Israel "the moral preoccupation gives a special pathos and nobility to life," Eban concludes with a ringing affirmation of Israel's democratic integrity. Its spirit is embodied, he believes, in the commission's conviction that "a harsh truth is more salutary than a smooth evasion." That same belief seems to underlie Eban's own account...