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HUMOR needs constant airing. The main reason why the Lampoon never makes anyone really laugh out loud (I hope The Proposition cast won't be too offended by this comparison) is that its pieces, though written by individuals, must be read to the rest of the organization for peer approval. Thus there is a tendency not to include anything strikingly different from what has been accepted before for fear that someone will frown and say, "I don't think that's funny." This is why most Lampoon pieces might just as well be written by the same, mildly amusing...
...Yorkers were doubtless relieved that their latest crisis had eased before turning into an outright calamity. But in the long run, Rockefeller's solution seemed to offer little consolation for a city already traumatized by excessively high taxes and strike-happy unions. As written by Rockefeller, the moral of New York's latest step toward chaos seemed to be that it pays to strike...
Bureaucrats & Morticians. He has been doing a staggering amount of packaging. Since 1959, when his secretary first started counting, the professor has written eight books, 32 articles, 54 book reviews and 35 letters to the editor. He has also provided eight introductions to books by other authors, delivered scores of major lectures, and composed numerous drafts for major speeches by such luminaries as Lyndon Johnson and John, Robert and Edward Kennedy (Gaibraith's pen, for example, was responsible for the lines in J.F.K.'s Inaugural...
...royalties, does not mean quite what it says. "As far as the Davis Cup team is concerned," says U.S.L.T.A. President Robert J. Kelleher, "the color of their clothes will be up to their captain." Moreover, many U.S. tennis clubs back up the longstanding tradition that "whites are right" with written bylaws that specifically prohibit color from their courts...
Arthur Miller in The Price has written a museum piece of a play to match the set. In form, substance and attitude, his newest drama is vintage 1930s. Always inclined to use the theater as a preacher's pulpit, Miller sermonizes on his favorite themes: guilt, responsibility, and the way a man's identity is forged or warped by society's image of what he is or what he should be. In structure, though not in content, the central situation-the sibling rivalry of two brothers and their relationship to their father-somewhat resembles Miller...