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The playlet takes place on an idyllic Sunday in an idyllic country town, where strollers shower coins and smiles on the local beggar, and husbands treat their wives with adoring deference. Eventually, in all the town's houses and apartments, everyone sits down to Sunday lunch. One after another...
There is, moreover, a lamentable disproportion between the money deployed on buying art and the money available for preserving masterpieces that cannot, by their nature or circumstances, be sold -unmovable art like buildings, frescoes, or even entire cities of cherishable antique beauty. Only a spectacular disaster like the Florence flood...
It took the final U.S. entry, M.A.S.H., to clear away the nasty aftertaste of commercialized commitment. Oddly enough, this was the one protest film based on the uses of bad taste-an insanely funny movie expressing the moral disproportion between war and lesser evils by showing the reality of both...
Once caught, black suspects are more likely than whites to be jailed rather than bailed, more likely to be convicted than acquitted, and more likely to receive stiff sentences. Of the 479 condemned men now on death row in U.S. prisons, more than half are black. According to many experts...
Sir: I grant the right to strike for better work conditions, but great disproportion exists when an essential working force like the Transport Workers Union can flout a court order, rob the labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It...