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...Richard McCarthy's investigation of CBW there were few people on the high ground, taking a position that was stronger and more effective than McCarthy's. The failures of his position slip by unnoticed, attributed not to the weakness of McCarthy's stance but to the foibles of an unwitting administration...
...going to get involved. I demand some compensation. If I'm donating my time, energy, money, and promising future to the liberation of non-elites throughout the world then "they" better damn well appreciate it. A pretty egocentric sentiment, to be sure, but an easy one to slip into in the absence of any gratifying political victories...
...Harvard friend signed the slip, adding "son" parenthetically after his name. The attendant ripped off our copy, dropped it into the driver's lap with the credit card and a wad of trading stamps, and, saying nothing, moved to the car that had pulled up behind...
...lest the obvious slip away, there is more wrong with Georgy than the fact that there are no people in it. With no characterization in the book, it by necessity must be top-heavy with plot-and there is not enough plot to go around. Action stops dead at the beginning of Act Two-so much so, that the first three musical numbers of that act could be done in reverse order without necessitating more than small changes in the book. The sub-plot, involving Georgy's rich suitor, has hardly been integrated into the show at all and perhaps...
...course, don't really know. Sex here is spending the night, and embarrassments, and pills, and pregnancies, and diets, and new kinds of honesty, and being, like Kesey told us to be, out front as much as possible. And honesty, we learn as we slip in and out of our regular lives around here, is a relative value...