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...Elizabethan he always was and always will be. Thus Olivier was the embodiment of a calypso Othello, with a Caribbean accent and swagger. The highly stylized, slightly exotic Othello of Moses Gunn might have been a Cotton Club dandy. In the current revival at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, James Earl Jones makes of Othello a wounded animal, a Jack Johnson in agonized decline...
...Hearty congratulations on a brilliant article on the Berrigans. Having been a member of the cast in the premiere presentation of Daniel's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, I was one of many actors who finally found a "prophet." Daniel was still underground at the time of the presentation last summer, and the FBI harassment we as actors were forced to bear was perhaps ridiculous, if not downright unbelievable...
Friedman admits that he expected the rate of price increases to taper off faster than it has. He made a bad mistake last February when he predicted that overall inflation would decrease to a 3% annual rate by the end of 1970. On the other hand, he was correct in predicting that a recession would strike, though a bit too pessimistic about its severity. His recent record as a forecaster may be irrelevant to the validity of his main theory; yet Friedman's ideas gained popularity partly because he and other monetarists proved to be right in earlier forecasts...
...curbing inflation or reviving the economy. "We have come out of this very luckily," Friedman contends. "But we aren't through yet. The test is whether the Administration and the Federal Reserve will have the guts to keep the present relatively moderate expansion policy and let inflation taper down. There is a real danger of increasing the money supply at such a rate as to rekindle inflation...
...counseling and therapy, methadone eases heroin withdrawal and blocks heroin's euphoric effects. This enables an addict to function normally and hold a job, something that few heroin users can do. But methadone itself is addictive, which means that those who use it must either be helped to taper off from the synthetic, or continue their habit for the rest of their lives. Methadone advocates maintain that this is no worse than a diabetic's daily use of insulin...