European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 12 the stars and stripes Juty 1977 pm u f one the Cuvi tiling elements in the life of great cities has been the place of casual encounter the roman parts cafe where people talk and drink arid in their mass provide each other in if modern cities have in into Man replaces in them invite pause or social mingling All is Condon has More than its sterile the full face towers that Dis Ngure the but one new Bulkly Ngun Umidon proves that contemporary Archt a tabs humane  people to relat and that is the tonal theater on Tho South Bank of the not usually made for Strol Ling and Reading and what sane now yorker would arrange to meet a Friend at a theater two hours before a performance is to survive the Orange de and the fumes and the cramped lobbies at Bui come to the National an hour or two before and the piano is in the ground floor lobby and at half a dozen other Levels upper outdoor platforms Over looking the River people Are walking or Sitti Are and books sus i Book or a newspaper or the you Are about to Seey i William new York voters Boomerang senator pal Rock Moynihan has Given a most remarkable speech in Pursuit of the causes of the decline of new u is a document both  and it takes us to Heights from which we can clearly see All Hose confused and confusing Little diligently doing their but with a tantalizing phrase or two paying 6bcinancc to senator Moynihan retreats Casily from the conclusions his own analysis urge upon the strength of his the Fine display by a trained urbanist makes it an important he has said that he intends logo to the Thile House in read the speech to president which reminds me of general amins slated intention in 1b7j to in to the general Assembly of the United nations to read to the delegates the Proto cols of inc elders of president Carter has much to learn from a Moynihan s but in would require him to in learn Many of the generalities that got him elected Moynihan begins by saying that new York has got the Short end of the to which the answer is it has and it Hast it has got shortchanged economically Over the years in the sense that More Money left new York for Washington than was later dispatched to new York from the Litno reason Why that should sur prise anyone except sleepy new York the Standard of living in new York has higher than that of Many indeed most american under the any re distribution is National venture would quite naturally Lake Money from new York of education and we rare with Floo billion to spend didst understand itself As engaged in taking Money from Mississippi  new but the situation in new York senator Moynihan Points out the namely that As a highly Tad Community begins to suffer the High lax Rales tend to bul the Revenue de creases even As racial costs the scythian could not have bred two wild horses better equipped to pull new York Bute the figures Point to the progressive impoverishment of new the Economy of new York stale had kept Pace Wilh the Economy of the nation since we would now have one million More jobs than we new York City would have one halt but Why is this happening to the Empire slate senator Moynihan answer com us in Trusi and at a  ration of there Are no sult Iciel reasons for we absolute decline of our not even our my considerable mismanagement of our to the i have reached the conclusion that our decline has come about As the largely but nonetheless direct and palpable Conse Quence of the politics of the Federal govern i have come to the conclusion that much of our economic decline is imposed on us from the much in the Way our welfare predicament is imposed on us from the u although there is passing reference Here to local it is i Suffi because new Yorks profligate Polit ical leaders have done their share at least of making economic life in new York mar go Bialiy and most important of All the Federal measures and rules that have proved so costly to new York have been backed by the great majority of new Yorks elected so that the political and moral responsibility for new Yorks plight lies with new yorkers c at Englon sur borers what they got in the sense that they have habitual sent to Washington congressmen and senators who habitually vote for Federal pending in logic of which has sen to Money from the Richer Stales for advantage of the Power the con Gress that voted Liss up the department to in in la u m u to 01 to Iun a brass quintet have been Folk a it a pianola ii is All Angus the English n has described the bus of Theina Llogras the wanted it id be nitty in a he said for r1 As the human relations for inc nonprofessional vis the mind to describe it this la a democratic u is a Large House to i Arale Heaters but u grand Lolly the Kennedy Cebu from across the thames Seta not a Box but a series of Strong Untal lines and dramatic Lowers the Walls inside and out Are with Lille does not have the formal Coin what 11 does have dignity and a sense of occasion with severity Uherc is the spaces outside inc auditorium an up by stairs and Levels so that inc finds his Corner and never feels Ihen Troph Obla of a Large crowded u is the policy of the theater r As it was the Hope of the arc take the National a place the ticket prices Are Low even ish standards from to a top under and the audiences do seem r varied in dress and age than in 5 Xvi putting on a substantial repertory those often plays with huge inevitably raises Money i Cost Neary 12 million to run the f and its three Heaters this r sales d the rest will cover Only about the company relics on a Large from the Arta funded by i and a bit from the j the National has had a Good Deal scism since its new building some called the sir Peter Eitra first Choice of plays was some of the new stage new Chinery i not the company make annoying Wichas ing the hours the building is open to a outsider the problems seem trivial Here is a of Paul Scofield and sir John Gle dozens of others Noel con could act their Way through the j Telephone for an one comparison suffices Brilliant classic production of Hen j Volpone against the travesty of tation now playing in new York r name sly but sir Denys lasdun8 building i reason for for a 100 Britain res sled proposals for a theater a fact rightly seen by eur others As a Symbol of 1 has a building to match the great t of English drama accessible to id