Good Drama Should Sandpaper The

Natural Villains Are Hard To Come By, What With All The Shrinks And Social-scientist Types Threatening To Understand Everybody Into The Ground.

Ours Was The Togetherness Generation. We Equated Togetherness With Salvation, And Expected So Much From It That It Was Bound To Let Us Down. Companionship, Security, Lifelong Physical And Spiritual And Emotional Warmth - All Were To Be Had For The Twist Of A Ring And The Breathing Of A Vow. And To Be Had No Other Way.

The Rich Plankton Of Pop Heroes And Pop Villains On Which We Americans Are Accustomed To Feed, The Daily Media Soup Of Sports Figures, Ax Murderers, Politicians, And Rock Singers, The Ever-running River Of Celebs, Heavies, And Oddballs That We Use To Spice Up Our Own Relatively Humdrum Lives Has Of Late Become A Very Watery Gruel. Where Have All The Good Guys And Bad Guys Gone? Why Does Everyone Out There Look So Gray?

Good Drama Should Sandpaper The Mind.

How Is The Newcomer To Deal With Rome? What Is One To Make Of This Marble Rubble, This Milk Of Wolves, This Blood Of Caesars, This Sunrise Of Renaissance, This Baroquery Of Blown Stone, This Warm Hive Of Italians, This Antipasto Of Civilization?