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Comprising nine sections with 173 articles, the draft of the new constitution, the Soviet Union's fourth, will be discussed in factories, collective farms, offices and schools all over the U.S.S.R. Possibly in a slightly altered form, but without substantive changes, the text will almost certainly be approved by the Supreme Soviet, the nation's rubber-stamp parliament, in time for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution next November...
...Diana Trilling's We Must March My Darlings. Playwright Lillian Hellman told the New York Times last year she had heard the manuscript contained "a hysterical personal attack on me." Little, Brown, the publisher for both writers, requested the deletion of four passages about Hellman from the Trilling text. When the author refused, the publisher terminated the contract, precipitating a ruckus whose reverberations can still be heard...
Anti-lntellectualism. Though steeped in the 19th century, Douglas takes an important part of her text from Richard Hofstadter's Anti-lntellectualism in American Life (1963). In the heavy, bunkered prose of the embattled intellectual, the historian wrote that "to the extent that it becomes accepted in any culture that religion is largely an affair of the heart or of the intuitive qualities of the mind and that the rational mind is irrelevant or worse, so far it will be believed that the rational faculties are barren or perhaps dangerous...
...Rumanian-born Serban, who has become the latest fad hero of the self-styled experimentalists, the text is simply a mask that must be ripped off to reveal the unconscious, irrational blood flow of the play. The dramatist is presumed unable to capture the Id of his work in words, so the director imposes a distracting new subtext that blurs, blots out or mangles the real text. In The Cherry Orchard, earlier this season, Serban altered the living space of Chekhov's drama to a kind of surrealistic all-white silo in which Mme. Ranevskaya ricocheted around without...
Galbraith's sappy praise for Keynes stands out all the more when contrasted with the light in which the author places almost every other thinker, businessman, and institution that crosses his path: dim. Wht saves The Age of Uncertainty from being a history text is the personal touch. Tour-guide Galbraith knows the landscape well, but so well that he can't resist editorializing about each sight. Few are spared as Galbraith talks about the Pentagon ("Were [the Crusades] under the auspices of the Pentagon, it would still be heard that, in the Holy Land, there was light...