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...smashing of glass are the robust sounds of fresh life, the cries of something newborn." In Detroit, they proved to be-with the rattling of gunfire-the sounds of death. Throughout the Detroit riot there was-as in Newark-a spectacularly perverse mood of gaiety and light-hearted abandon in the mob-a "carnival spirit," as a shocked Mayor Cavanagh called it, echoing the words used by New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes after he toured stricken Newark three weeks...
...that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...
...tunnel. Go back to Benedictine monasteries, where work was a "byword for zealous efficiency and formal perfection." Discover new prophets of "modest, humane disposition," like Jesus and Confucius. Establish new routines, such as the Hebrew Sabbath that "found a way of obstructing the megamachine and challenging its inflated claims." Abandon the modern constitutional equivalents of ancient kingships and revert to Neolithic culture. In other words, Mumford would perfect man with weaving, pottery and thatched-village anarchy...
Better Lemmon. For such reckless abandon Crawford pays a price. In Black Comedy to date, he has suffered a whiplash neck, a gashed and infected back, four ankle sprains, eight torn ligaments, and splinters in all ten fingers. The other night, while fastening the neck brace he has to wear between performances, he was asked why he didn't put out a little less or stay home and play his favorite sport of Monopoly. Crawford, aghast at such an unprofessional thought, replied: "I wouldn't give up those laughs for anything. My injuries are pleasure bumps...
...Game? Faced with rising costs, many dioceses have shut down or combined marginal and inefficient schools, and some administrators are beginning to wonder whether it might ultimately be necessary to abandon parochial school education entirely. "If it comes to a point where we couldn't pay a living wage," admits Monsignor Donald Montrose, superintendent of Los Angeles' archdiocesan high schools, "maybe we shouldn't be in the education game." Noting that the expense of maintaining the U.S. church's century-old parochial school system is "becoming a real problem," St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter recently...