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...view of the play, has pushed his production along the gamut to pure comedy and at times beyond this in the direction of farce. The advantage accruing from this is that audiences will readily accept, under the guise of comedy, the kind of silly plot that they would not swallow in a serious work. But there is a disadvantage too: a comic interpretation tends to prevent the audience from realizing that grave issues are being extensively dealt with in this play. Kahn made his choice, and has proven its viability beyond a doubt...
What puzzles him most, I think-though he fails to articulate it-are the suicidal politics pursued by certain student radicals. They are betting on the apocalypse, the total conflagration that would swallow up even rational radicals like Walzer. He innocently thinks it a service to point out to militants the sensible limits of action. His coffeehouse radicalism can barely accommodate the drug-rock epoch of student politics. The student left embraces more than a mind-blown psychedelia-but the offspring of Lenin, the puritanical disciples of collective repression who infatuate Walzer, are fast disappearing. The prospect of an irrational...
...been enough to depress prices persistently. For every stock sale there must be a buyer, of course, but nowadays the buyer is often a specialist assigned by an exchange to keep markets orderly. Part of his obligation is to buy when no one else will. Specialists have had to swallow gigantic quantities of stock on which they have accumulated huge paper losses. They can be expected to disgorge some of their holdings whenever prices start to rise - a factor that may tend to abort rallies...
...cameras came back to West Virginia. What they recorded, millions of people saw: the widows: the old miners, gasping with black lung; the union president. Tony Boyle, praising Consolidation Coal Company: the governor of West Virginia, surmising that disasters were inevitable in coal mining... it was too much to swallow, and people who had never thought once about coal mining thought twice about it now, and the uproar was heard throughout the country...
...they swallow Bruno Sammartino and Gorilla Monsoon at the Garden," Collins confided to me later. "they'll eat this right up." But there was a guy from the Times there, however, and you don't put anything over on those New York writers. Neil Amdur, the guy, has been around. He had been to Longwood and he had been to Forest Hilis. This was no world championship, this was "The Collins...