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...afternoon in the ornate, white stucco Spanish mansion that sits upon Manila's Pasig River. Malacañang's huge second-floor reception hall used to be filled with the guests and functionaries of Spain's colonial governors. Now the great men of Philippine national independence stare down from the walls-Aguinaldo, Quezon, Roxas, Magsaysay. The hall most conveniently serves as a waiting area for the diverse individuals and groups who daily seek audience with the President. Saudi Arabian princes, American bankers, Jaycee delegations-all get their turn and are ushered one by one into the simple...
...cavils should be mentioned, one minor and one major. It was annoying (atleast to those with a smattering of Italian) to be forced to stare through most of the play at two egregious errors. Two shopfronts are included in the scenery, the first labelled "Sarto" and the second "Gioeneria." Presumably "Sartoria" (tailor's shop) and "Gioielleria" (jeweller's shop) were intended. Much more important, was the inexplicable omission--from a production which admirably omits little else--of Portia's song "Tell me where is fancy bred..." This song is not an ornamental time-waster but an essential piece of narrative...
...Saturday mornings with a junior high school friend and bop into Harvard. The Square was a lot cooler then, more wierd people to stare at, more radical literature to pick up etc.-- maybe it's just that everything's a lot cooler in the eighth grade. After making the rounds we'd head down Boylston St. to Carey Cage. By 11 a.m. there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy...
...Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living, what proof can Frances find that the examined life is any better? Her determination to stare down her own happiness makes Drabble's heroine both amusing and touching, an avatar of all those women in Victorian novels who tried to patch together their own ethical systems during the decline of official morality...
Central to this controversy of doctors v. judges is the whole problem of skyrocketing malpractice suits (TIME, June 16). "Physicians I have known for years stare at me in bewilderment, wondering what kind of situation we're in now," says Dr. William Curran of the Harvard School of Public Health. "They are more afraid than they were before" about pulling the plug. The hospital where Karen lies is asking the court this week for immunity from civil suits or criminal prosecution if the court rules that she should be allowed...