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According to police, 148 brigatisti are already in jail, and warrants are out for an additional 25. Of the detainees, 39 have been convicted of or charged with murder, 13 with attempted homicide, 55 with kidnaping, 30 with robbery, a few with lesser offenses. Little is known about the Brigades, but some brigatisti, it is certain, have been schooled at the same Palestinian guerrilla camps that trained members of West Germany's murderous Baader-Meinhof gang...
Fuse these qualities at their apex and you get an O'Casey. Even a lesser Irish dramatist like Hugh Leonard can be uncommonly rewarding. Da, now at Manhattan's Hudson. Guild Theater, means dad. The play is a fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted...
...that Stalinism, rather than being an aberration, "is a mode of socialism. Gulag is not an accident." At fault, he argues, is socialism's obsession with homogeneity, "expelling from its borders the forces of heterogeneity and ... squelching its rebels." Compared with socialism's seemingly intrinsic dangers, capitalism seems a lesser evil to some of the New Philosophers. Admits Levy: "Between the barbarity of capitalism, which censures itself much of the time, and the barbarity of socialism, which does not, I guess I might choose capitalism...
...history of the Gibbsians' lesser godhead, Schutt, is better known. A distant relative of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Schutt was the founder of the Gibbs Historical Society, a front organization for the Gibbsians. Portraits of Schutt's head are displayed everywhere on February 21--"Gibbs Day"--sometimes adorned with the traditional tie and lab coat of the lesser godhead...
...with the televised media, the reporting press has also grown tremendously. The last decades have seen not a profusion of newspapers, like the profusion of "saleable" books, but rather the development of a group of influential publications with huge circulations. Large urban dailies, Time, Newsweek, and a number of lesser national magazines dominate public expression. In the last 50 years, the number of both large and small circulation newspapers has declined precipitously, and with it a broad range of viewpoints and verbal freedom. The principle of a partisan, local, fractious, extremely diverse and decentralized press--a principle which survived from...