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...What did Hannah do to her hat to make it nicer...
...Church, the function of the monarchy, and the date of the Creation. This chitchat is followed by a second act in the form of a dialogue on the nature and purpose of kingship between Charles and his wife. The philosophy is all very interesting, but it would have been nicer if Shaw had included at least a plot to spice things...
Italians are susceptible to nostalgia and prone to forgiveness. Besides, the bewildering parade of 28 postwar governments, most of them incapable of coping with domestic problems, has made the old days suddenly seem nicer. "If quello were here, this wouldn't happen," says a Roman trapped in a traffic jam. "When lui was around," complains a robbery victim, "even the Mafia behaved." In a recent poll, 66% of those asked whether they would temporarily surrender full power to an "honest, disinterested and energetic man" to carry out reforms replied that they would...
...Most of what we are doing here is to aid and abet the development of mammals." To that end, the catalogue lists and reviews instructional manuals in such arts as giving a massage ("People rubbing people is always nice. People rubbing people with skill is an order of magnitude nicer"), making beer and wine, building a classical guitar, Film Making in Schools ("Hot ziggety zag") and playing music on a computer...
...scattered through the magazine, Mungo abandons the city of the mind, the building blocks, the ideologies, and goes down home. He tells stories of himself, his mother, and father, Aunt Assie and Uncle John, a kid who got the clap at B. U., Auntie Irene, and these are nicer. "Luckies cost a quarter of a pack at Meister's, where you had to explain it was for your auntie Irene." He tells us he's "smiling a whole bunch" these days...