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...great personages from high places (casus virorum illustrium) gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character." The real '60s began on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, and they turned festive and brutal too. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. His assassination became the prototype in a series of public murders: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy. His death prefigured all the deaths of the young in Viet...
...seems, even high schools have fallen into the trap. An article in the Oct. 30 issue of The New York Times Magazineexamining a prototypical suburban high school in Brownwood, TX revealed some rather alarming information. Corporal punishment is regularly used on players who misbehave or demonstrate conduct unbecoming a team member. Some parents hold their sons back a grade so that "they will be bigger when they try out for the high school team." And on one occasion, after a season of repeated losses, a coach received so many threatening phone calls before an upcoming game that he was forced...
...going to go trap by sea," the head of the National Security Council announced last night...
...busy atmosphere and central location (non-basement) make Quincy's grill an alluring trap for the procrastinator. "I've been here since dinner," lamented a student one evening around 11.30 "Now it's too late to get any work done, so I might as well finish enjoying myself here," she added...
White avoids this trap the best, enabling the consistently wacky pre-teen Emma to relate her personality so other characters--parents, for instance, Gutwillig as Wesley has a harder time. Less defined to start with, his character progresses a lot further through the plot's various unbelievabilities than his sister, and he and Bernstein, excellent by themselves, rarely convey the impression of mother and son. Most of the stiffness and bad timing evaporate once Norris as Weston comes onstage; the strongest personality of the four, he not only dominates the plot but brings most of the dramatic momentum with...