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...average working family of four. As programs and benefits are reduced, the underprivileged - largely blacks and Hispanic Americans - may choose to move to areas where it costs less to live. Thus, while minorities will continue to grow in proportion to the rest of the population, the trend eventually could taper...
Special Position. Though the fighting appeared to taper off at week's end, few Lebanese believed that the paralyzing feud was finished. They feared, moreover, that the continuing battles might eventually destroy the special position of Lebanon in the Middle East, in which it has managed to avoid the bloodshed of wars with Israel and at the same time build up a profitable business with the world around it. At the core of the problem is the country's outdated government structure, which was designed in a poly-religious society to be fair to all by allotting posts...
...being given a splendid revival in Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum Theater, with Walter Matthau in the role of the vainglorious Captain Boyle, Jack Lemmon as his bar "butty" Joxer, and Maureen Stapleton as his earth mother wife Juno. How did this particular production come about? Matthau and Lemmon had wanted to do the play for some tune, preferably with Stapleton. They approached Gordon Davidson, the energetic artistic director of the Mark Taper, and gave him a commitment for a five-week limited run, which was sold out by opening night...
That is what is so exuberantly evident on the boards of the Mark Taper. Tragedy or not, the players are celebrating the joy of acting. Tragedy or not, what is O'Casey celebrating? A trinity of profound, if currently unfashionable values-God, country and family. Not for a single moment during Juno and the Paycock is one unaware that Roman Catholicism, Ireland and the Boyles' intense awareness of themselves as an embattled entity have shaped the people that we see before us. Not for the good, necessarily. O'Casey had as sharp an eye as James Joyce...
...Casals was not a political artist; he cared little for ideology, and he refused to play in Soviet Russia as well as Fascist Spain. Casals was "fundamentally a Catalonian peasant," a Spanish refugee teaching at the University of Puerto Rico told Bernard Taper of the New Yorker in 1961. Like peasants elsewhere, Casals had a seemingly infinite capacity for endurance, and thinking of the reasons some Vietnamese peasants give for opposing American-backed dictators--those peasants who say they're interested not in politics but in peace, who are motivated not by ideology but just by hatred for torturers...