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...hasn't used for decades? "He had been a man with a job, a huge title and many, many things to do," Bing writes. "Now it was full daylight on a weekday, and he had no tie on." You Look Nice Today is a comic novel with a tragic heart, and for a portrait of corporate life, you'd have to go back to Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit to find its equal. Rather than another searing indictment, Bing gives us a cockeyed love letter to the executive suite, and he reminds us that while...
...before her wedding, was a heartrending piece [WORLD, Sept. 22]. As an emergency-medicine physician, Applebaum showed absolute concern for victims, whether Palestinian or Israeli, and his work to build better, more efficient facilities to treat the sick and wounded made him a role model for the world. How tragic that his life was cut short by those who represent the antithesis of everything he stood for. ROBERT ISLER Fair Lawn...
...killed just as he was about to realize his dream of securing a strong and stable state living peacefully alongside his Palestinian neighbors as equals. The fact that the bullet that ended his life shattered the chances for his dream to succeed make his death all the more tragic...
Take Craig Wilson's Recent Tragic Events, another off-Broadway arrival, starring Heather Graham as a Minneapolis single woman who has a blind date on the night of Sept. 12. The play wavers between curdled sitcom (the evening is interrupted by a busybody neighbor), witless absurdism (a visit by Joyce Carol Oates--played by a sock puppet) and failed melodrama, as Graham waits for word from her twin sister, who may or may not have been in the towers. Then it all takes off into the stratosphere, with a discourse on free will and determinism, a stage manager's voice...
While it is tragic that many more fortunate citizens do not always feel the urge to give back to those with less, each and every American must be respected as an individual. Individual rights are a fundamental basis for humanity. James R. Cantalupo, the CEO of McDonald’s, is just as much an individual as a cashier in one of his corporation’s chain restaurants. Though externally he probably leads a much different life, and financially he surely has far more in his pockets, he is no different fundamentally than any of the thousands of workers...