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...Catcher in the Rye to heart, but rarely ran away from home. They dug the character of Rebel Without a Cause, but concluded that James Dean carried futility on his back like a motorcycle jacket. It was easier to act like Sal Mineo, wronged and quietly suffering. It was simpler to mainline on paperbacks, to get kicks from the hot parts of the Mickey Spillane books or Peyton Place ("With her mouth almost against his, she whispered, 'I didn't know it could be like this...
Among the qualities a scholar could bring back to the classroom from public life, Cox included political sophistication and 'much simpler observations upon public life," which he claimed are needed to distill the "hard substance" of politics...
...Unfortunately, the sacred motets that opened the program suffered from exactly this type of difficulty, as did William Byrd's Mass for five voices. With only a single voice for each elaborate contrapuntal line, I Dilettanti were simply unable to maintain the warm blended tone they brought to the simpler, chordal passages...
...basic issues could not be simpler-even though they have taken 8½ months, more than 800 official exhibits and 18,500 pages of court testimony to spell out. Indeed, the federal court suit against Reserve Mining Co. has become the classic pollution case because it poses so sharply the questions of whether or not damage to a region's environment is worse than damage to the same region's economy, and of who should pay for cleaning up pollution. Ten plaintiffs, including the Federal Government and the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, want a Reserve plant...
...Maybe the moral resonance of the play infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence are those with their own natural appeal, like John Carito's Journeyman. The others sometimes blow too-sinister cigar smoke, and take over the simpler, symbolic function of the leering village idiot...