Editor's note.
American Theatre, March, 2002
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When bad things happened--when there were wars, or grisly accidents, or, God forbid, terrorist attacks--my mother-in-law used to be fond of declaring, in a country woman's common-sense tone: "Everything would be fine if people just stayed in the house." We'd laugh and acknowledge the grain of irrefutable truth in her aphorism (a conversation-ender if there ever was one), and I'd keep my obvious retort--"Yes, but how small and dull and uninteresting such a risk-free world would seem! "--to myself.
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