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Like many an artist who can calculate by the calendar that his fertile middle years may be drawing to a close, Neil Simon has seemed in recent writing to seek a greater resonance between his plays and his most personal recollections, and to yearn for the respect that accrues to a creator who examines himself. His 21st Broadway play, which is still running, was Brighton Beach Memoirs, a depiction of life in Brooklyn in the 1930s in a lower-middle- class Jewish household much like his own. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best play...
With the fear of crime and the public frustration at the justice system rising, it is not surprising that many Americans applaud Bernhard Goetz and yearn to strike back at criminals. But an apt warning to such citizens comes from Hubert Williams, director of police in crime-plagued Newark, N.J. "We can give up our Constitution in return for our safety. If you give police unfettered rights, I assure you that crime will drop. The price will be a garrison state. As a policeman, I think that is a price we cannot afford...
Presidential Contender Walter Mondale, the grand acquisitor of political endorsements, publicly spurns his most passionate devotees. Across this land some 10 million cigar smokers yearn for a front-page picture of Mondale, the only dedicated cigar smoker among the Democratic contenders, with his Punch panatela at a defiant angle. Or maybe 30 seconds on Tom Brokaw's news, showing a sweet cloud of Partagas No. 1 smoke carrying off the burdens of another campaign...
Many people heard Johnson in private yearn to sit down and talk over the world with China's Mao Tse-tung. L.B.J. did not raise the idea publicly or make it his doctrine. Richard Nixon did, and is credited with the most creative diplomatic idea...
Aksyonov's romp through nirvana ends on a cautionary note. Though the is land's 5 million citizens are wallowing in wealth, they still yearn for reunion with the motherland. Their petition is met with a classic Kremlin reply: full-scale invasion. The bewildered Crimeans can only watch the living-room war on TV until their broadcast facilities are crushed by Soviet tanks...