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...suddenly became aware that 3 beatnick-type-thug-like young hoodlums were in the rear and evidently following me. As I neared a small street intersection--they came on--one on the left--one on the right--& one in back--evidently to surround me. But--I quickened my pace and dangled my holster: I pulled out my trusty pipe in gun-like fashion. "Stop this moment--or I'll fire at you--I have a loaded gun in my hand...
...between Baldwin and his audience by examining the advertisements that surround his prose. On one page, for instance, Baldwin insists that white Americans, equating Europe with "civilization," envied those "more elegant European nations that were still untroubled by the presence of black men on their shores." Yet, he continues, if we are not to share in Europe's decay we must "accept ourselves as we are, bring new life to Western achievements, and perhaps transform them." Then this phase of the argument reaches a climax...
...large advertisements surround this column of print. On the right, bottled expensively, is an elegant perfume: "Superb fragrances," it promises its buyers. The names below have their appeal, too: "Baroness," "White Shoulders...
...lost 21 congressional seats even while Kennedy was winning in 1960; they therefore had fewer to lose this year. And downright disturbing to the Democratic future were the Republican gubernatorial wins in the big industrial states. That fact was acutely recognized by John Kennedy and the pragmatic politicians who surround him in the White House. Perhaps the best summary of the 1962 elections was uttered by a Kennedy aide. "The big states!" he groaned as he studied the returns. "The big states! The big states...
Life is pleasant enough in the village. They wear good costumes there, thanks to Barbara Channing, and the two musicians play a good guitar. Paul Sapounakis' set, an ingenious arrangement of vaguely Iberian arches, would (if they were closer to me) surround the play well enough--even though it has nothing to do with Lorca's instructions. Still, it is only in the last act, when Eric Regener's music throws dread, mystery, and the Moon out on stage, that Blood Wedding really begins...