Insurance companies were becoming more and more reluctant, especially in the inner cities, to write the kind of policies they had traditionally written, against fire, theft, and the like. And yet the public disturbances and general increase in crime made insurance all the more necessary. This show is less rambunctious than some recent ones, but it is a productive exploration of how private enterprise and the state might collaborate without the state's actually taking over the insurance function. CS: "The citizen himself has the obligation to use his ingenuity to protect that typewriter [the hypothetical stolen object Mr. Buckley had introduced into the conversation]; and there are ways in which that typewriter can be protected, whether it's a burglar-alarm system or whether it's some other system. No, it would be wrong for the state or for the nation to take over every man's responsibility."