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Samuel Johnson called opera "an exotic and irrational entertainment," and maybe it was in 18th century London. There is nothing exotic about the opera boom in America today. In such cities as Omaha, Dallas and even Moorhead, N. Dak., regional companies have taken root, resulting in innovative and exciting operatic activity...
...when the company was still moving in, "We don't set Hamlet in Upper Silesia just because Upper Silesia happens to be fashionable. Yet the cry of academic theatergoers, at Harvard or anywhere else, resounds with the same refrain: stick to the text. And herein lies the root trouble with Brustein's vision of harmony between university and theater...
...root, the right to speech does not translate into the right to advertise, because of the warping intermediary of money. When an advertiser comes to the door of a newspaper, he comes money in hand; with no money, he gets no space. If there were a true "right to advertise," then every newspaper in the country would daily infringe upon the rights of those with too little money to purchase an ad. Advertising is business, not speech, and in business, unlike in speech, absolute freedom is not an absolute virtue...
Confused? So are many of the Congressmen preparing to choose this week between the Administration-backed Gramm-Latta resolution and the opposing measure crafted by James Jones, the Oklahoma Democrat who heads the House Budget Committee. The root of the problem is that anyone attempting to gauge the effect of proposed spending and tax cuts has to make a stab at forecasting what inflation, unemployment and interest rates are likely to be. A one-point rise in the jobless rate, for example, adds $30 billion to the federal deficit by increasing expenditures for unemployment compensation, welfare and the like...
...surprise that the family's awesome talent and phenomenal successes have attracted hordes of journalists to their Alexandria, Va., home, in the hopes of discovering the root of the Rapp's athletic prowess, as well as some sensational tidbits about, say, sibling rivalry. Washington Post reporters even went to the lengths of asking to move in for a few days so that they could observe the family in depth...