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...little vague. I was following the Alex Cairncross dictum. His first rule when making a forecast is: Give either a number or a date, but never both. His second rule is: Never underestimate the power of a platitude. His third rule is: When the President asks you a question, remember that he doesn't know the answer either...
...course, the most pressing question in Gargaliani-other than the outcome of the olive harvest-is when Spiro will come home. He has promised in letters to Andreas to visit the town, but the townspeople are beginning to wonder, in the shrewd fashion of peasants, why he waits so long. The delicacies of international politics that must concern their American cousin-the presence of a military junta in Athens, the absence of a constitutional Parliament-are not easily explained to the good people of sunny Gargaliani...
Passion for Privacy. Numerous parallels between Antoine and his creator have invited suggestions that this is a strongly autobiographical play. The last person likely to shed light on this question is Anouilh himself. At 59, looking like an aging bank clerk, with blank blue eyes behind silver-rimmed spectacles, he makes a fetish of privacy. It was three years before the world knew that he had divorced and remarried in 1953; his telephone numbers are unlisted and frequently change; and to keep his whereabouts secret, he shuttles back and forth between an apartment in Paris, a suburban house, a place...
Though he has made a limited concession on the permit question, the aura of manufactured crisis still hangs over the demonstrations. Having created the possibility of conflict, the Administration began marshalling a virtual army of police. national guard and regular troops (28,000 from the Washington area. with unspecified numbers on call from beyond a 100-mile radius) to protect the city from a mythical siege. As the government poured out its information about the "violent groups" coming to Washington, it kept the nation abundantly informed of the rising numbers of troops it is holding in the wings...
...cradle will rock and hopefully the bough will break, explains Larry Foreman, a union organizer in the play. But Blitzstein never quite answers that question we've all been wondering about: how do we break the bough...