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Once again old men talk of sending young men to war. With war mechanized, there is no valid reason why only young, poor men should serve. AU citizens between 18 and 62 should be subject to a random draft. Only the severely handicapped should be exempt. We might all be less inclined to rattle sabers if we thought we had to carry one into battle...
...truths and half-truths that Fosse tears out of his breast do not necessarily constitute art. Fosse, like Woody Allen, puts his audience in the psychoanalyst's chair, shoveling random associations and experiences onto the lap of the innocent viewer. If I wanted to play doctor instead of critic, I could probably speculate about Fosse's distortion, fantasy and death-wishing. But I won't. It's the responsibility of the artist to supply his audience with some sort of coherent overview--even if it's a warped overview, even if he is creating in a desperate attempt to stave...
...people who don't have tickets for his events lean against the fence around the speed skating rink like refugees, shouting desperately every time he circles by. They love him madly; he is a hero. And it is clear that he loves them back. "Good luck, Eric," a random fan calls out as he whizzes by on a trial run, and Eric literally stops dead in his tracks and spins around and squints up at the crowd in the direction of the voice and smiles and waves vigorously. Everyone shouts and waves back. I can swear that he is waving...
Because no one really knows what to expect, New Hampshire's pronouncement will be unexpected; that's how it's supposed to be. Like any self-respecting essentially random group of human beings, the voters of New Hampshire are perverse and capricious. And right now, the President of the United States, three senators, two congressmen, one governor, two ex-governors and one random bureacrat--named Carter, Kennedy, Baker, Dole, Anderson, Crane, Brown, Reagan, Connally and Bush--are scared to death of them...
...that are draft age," one woman tells me, "and I don't want them fighting for gas and oil." Kennedy says the president shouldn't be re-elected "just because he happened to be standing there when his foreign policy fell apart." Kennedy opposes draft registration; Kennedy supports a random system to draft both men and women. He supports the president's requested 3-per-cent hike in defense appropriations but draws the line elsewhere; he is for developing the concept of the MX missile, but not deploying it, for a foreign policy that stresses preventive measures...