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Macmillan was not the first to offer such a solution to Britain's problems. Ever since the pound took its disastrous nosedive during the last days of September-thereby forcing James Callaghan's Labor government to ask for yet another $3.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund-Britons have been treated to a Cassandra's chorus of elder statesmen appealing for a government of national unity...
...contrast, the minor roles are handled with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated...
...conference, lamented New Zealand's Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (who also serves as Finance Minister), was plainly "overshadowed by events." They included the political uncertainties in the U.S., Japan and West Germany, Britain's request for a $3.9 billion IMF loan to prop up its suffering pound sterling, and the growing probability of another price increase by the oil-exporting countries this winter...
...calligraphy of these paintings perserves its message over ages and oceans. Ezra Pound contended one could (almost) see poetry written in Chinese without reading it. Unquestionably, the calligraphic linear activity of the paintings expresses birdness or horseness with no need for translation into the more familiar vocabulary of realism...
Such juggling will still leave the pound far below its value of $2.58 in the summer of 1973, before the oil crisis and inflation began taking their toll of economies in industrialized nations. During five years of decline, the pound has lost almost half its buying power. The shrunken pound makes needed imports cost more. This drives up domestic prices, undermining the thrust of the government's economic strategy...