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...beginning in an immediately interesting and inherently funny way--taking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern out of their Hamlet context and making an existential comedy out of their dislocation; writing the ultimate parody of a murder mystery play and having his onstage critics sucked into the action in The Real Inspector Hound; creating a Professor of Moral Philosophy who tries to disprove Zeno's paradoxes of motion with a real hare and a real tortoise in Jumpers. Up till now, formulas like these have served Stoppard well--his plays have uniformly been among the most intelligent, enjoyable and effective theater...
...Drugs. In his last term in office, Rockefeller made a calculated shift toward conservatism. He knew that if he was ever going to become President, he would have to anchor his right. He began condemning "welfare cheaters" and appointed a state inspector to weed out fraud on the relief rolls. He declared war on drug pushers by winning passage of a bill mandating a life sentence for anyone convicted of selling hard drugs. When a revolt broke out among convicts at Attica state prison in 1971, he refused to meet with the rebels as they demanded. When they failed...
...Dutch cops assert that France began to get on top of its growing narcotics problem only when it started imposing 20-year jail terms on drug dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head of the Amsterdam narcotics squad: "The drug traffic came to Holland because the sentences are lighter. I'd like to see stiffer penalties, but I'm tied by the laws of this country...
Freeling pleaded extenuating circumstances-his own need for a change of character and scene. Faithful Freeling readers who, since Love in Amsterdam (1963), have stoutly prized Van der Valk even above Simenon's Inspector Maigret, ground their teeth and waited...
Died. George Frazier, 63, acerbic, eccentric newspaper columnist; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. A self-styled Brahmin, Frazier was the Harvard-honed son of a fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among...