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Certainly, the summit will not bring instant warmth to relations between China and Japan. They have been rivals for centuries and locked in war -military or verbal-almost continuously since the annexation of Formosa (Taiwan) by Japanese troops in 1895. So far, Chou has not publicly softened his oft-expressed view that Japan's economic growth "is bound to bring about military expansion." Given the history of hostility on both sides, the prospect is thus for a summit of convenience, not for a summit of real reconciliation...
Leslie Fiedler spoke at Harvard last summer on the cultural revolution which supposedly occurred in the last decade, claiming that popular culture and non-verbal media explorations are where the true art is at these days and that Tolstoy himself would have been pleased by the power of contemporary communications to link huge numbers of people to a common "creative" impulse...
...mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity? And even if they participate en masse in the creation of a body of cliches, might that not be the most telling criticism of the culture...
...title stands for logical positivists, linguistic philosophers and their penchant for verbal gymnastics-of which the play itself is perhaps too full. The time is the near future. A rationalist-oriented "Radical Liberal Party" has taken over England and elevated the ex-Minister of Agriculture to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury. In full sight of millions of televiewers, one British astronaut has clobbered another into the moon dust (there is too little fuel for both of them to return to earth...
...saying hello. "What are you running here, a desert?" is a necessary preamble to ordering drinks. Even the boozehound on doubles has a wretched little snapper handy: "Two Scotch on the rocks, put them in the same glass, will you?" The irony is that Dillon is painting a verbal desert inhabited by people who live off words. His achievement, modest but real, is that he manages to populate the place with recognizable, sympathetic forms of life...