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...perfumed, black-tie crowd that poured into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house last Friday was in for a surprise. What were those subway-style graffiti doing all over the proscenium arch? What kind of message was it, spelling out the names of Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, composers of elegance and wit? And what was all the barbed wire doing out there on the naked stage, not to mention the forlorn, bullet-torn French flag...
...style reflects the content and organization of a book eveidently intended to support a position, not weigh a question. Reading it is something like reading Erik von Daniken on the visits of spacemen to Earth during the Stone Age--enjoyable and enlightening if you already believe, irritating if you don't, amusing and not particularly illuminating to the neutral reader. It is impossible to deny the sense in much of what Strenio says; it is equally impossible, though, to miss the shallowness, oversimplification and inconsistency that often flaws his logic...
Meanwhile, Correspondent Arthur White delved into the life of a young radical leader, and Frank Melville traced the evolution of Thatcher's economic policies. Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof interviewed dozens of distressed workers. He found a surprising number who say they are sticking with Thatcher no matter how painful the consequences -and for some the consequences are painful indeed. Says Amfitheatrof: "One metalworker who had just been laid off at a plant near Manchester despaired of ever finding another job in his field. His father had worked at the plant before him. 'My family's always been...
...Bonnie Angela and Erik Amfitheatrot/London
...give in, for once you do give in, you will not rise back for a long time. Indeed, we cannot surrender, for those who will follow us will say, 'The were so close, and they failed.' History would not absolve us then." - By Stephen Smith. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Barry Kalb/Warsaw