Promotional letters we were too fastidious to finish: “‘Taste does not exist without scent,’ says wine expert Joshua Wesson. ‘The nose is nothing less than a fax machine to the heart and the oval office of the soul.’”
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Taboo topic, according to Dale Calandra of Center Theater, in New Plays! (Spring): “We don’t limit people to, say, two-character plays or period plays or modern plays. We do musicals; we’ve done one acts. The one thing that I don’t want to see anymore, that I know just doesn’t work for us, is another play about a dysfunctional family. Half of the submissions are plays about dysfunctional families.”
“This trade war must be stopped,” writes Eric Banfield in the Downers Grove Reporter (March 2), pointing out that its alleged objective makes no sense. “What if Japanese consumers don’t want to buy the exact number of products the U.S. and Japanese governments agree upon? What is the Japanese government supposed to do? Force Japanese consumers to buy them? The Japanese government at least realizes that’s ridiculous, and objects to the U.S. government’s stupid request.”
Speaking of COs, I think I hear one now. “Universal coverage…will not bring with it universal wellness,” writes holistic physician Elaine R. Ferguson in Conscious Choice (March/April). “The health system doesn’t need to be reformed, but transformed, from a reductionist, scientific method to a holistic approach that focuses on health and healing instead of disease and curing….Until we begin [to do this], the ‘reform’ of our current system will only serve to deform it even more.”
