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Meanwhile, two false alarms kept Italy on a kind of roller coaster of stage-managed drama. After an anonymous woman phoned a Rome newspaper that Moro had been released on a coastal road south of the city, police launched a ground and air search that lasted four hours. They found nothing. Next day, after another caller said Moro's body had been stuffed into the trunk of a car near his residence in Rome's Trionfale district, police pounced on that area. Again they came up emptyhanded...
...himself--a Freudian explanation for the motives behind the suicide (the death of the emperor's sister-mistress) is available for those non-believers in the true power of spiritual anguish. But the philosophical and moral message of the play is much closer to post-Marxian France than to Rome during the Pax Romana. The young, callow Caligula recognizes the hypocrisy of the dominant values and mores. Devoted to exposing the irrationality of society, he sets out to accomplish the impossible--"to capture the moon"--by personally transforming the very fabric of civilization...
...their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could be found in a tiny lake high in the Apennine mountains 70 miles northeast of Rome. Helicopters carrying frogmen and Alpine troops converged on the mountainside. The lake, virtually unreachable except by sophisticated mountaineers, was nearly frozen solid. After two days of searching, a body was found; it turned out to be that of a local shepherd who had apparently drowned himself...
History's lesson, as University of Southern California Economist Arthur Laffer has shown in the so-called Laffer Curve, is that when taxes go up, economic activity goes down. Empires from Rome to Britain reached their fullest flower when their taxes were low, Wriston remarks, and started to self-destruct as taxes rose. Americans feel uneasy about their economy, partly because federal, state and local governments tax away 29% of the gross national product. Warns Wriston: "We are getting very close to the point where high taxes will cause the economy to deteriorate...
...Rome and Louis XV France and Jacobean England and Renaissance Vienna... another Harvard musical confection is modern in comparison. I say "in comparison," because some may consider any play dealing with the Washington Senators to be just this side of ancient history. Never mind--Damn Yankees may be dated, but it boasts tunes like "You've Gotta Have Heart," "Whatever Lola Wants," "The Good Old Days" and "Goodbye Old Girl," which is more than you can say of the Globe sports pages. As you might expect, a show mixing Faust and the Yankees was combustible stuff on Broadway...