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...niece and her enamorata. Pandarus is the quintessmal old fuss budget. While Ulysses gets the most elegant lines in the piece Pandarus gets enough good comic material to read for the role of a Green Johnny Carson. Blunt to the point of abrasiveness. Pandarus urges the lovers to abandon useless talk and move into more substantial endeavors once they have made each other's acquaintance...
...anger and despair, some South Vietnamese turned upon the Americans who were now clearly going to abandon them. ARVN soldiers menaced Westerners in the streets. Terrified crowds of Vietnamese surrounded the U.S. embassy on Thong Nhut Street, begging their old protectors to get them out. Some tried to hand their babies over the wall into the embassy compound. Marines used tear gas and rifle butts to hold off what had become a mob of America's allies. Relays of helicopters began ferrying people out of the compound, evacuating the Americans and many of the Vietnamese who had worked for them...
...hour he had his audience doing "relevant anecdotal exercises" and "ad libs for awkward moments." The audience plunged in with happy abandon, though the wit sometimes was about as sharp as a filleting knife left out in the yard for a year...
...another blow against affirmative action, the Justice Department has asked some 50 states, counties and cities to abandon numerical goals in hiring or promoting women and minorities. Ironically, the quotas were established as a result of lawsuits filed by the Justice Department itself under previous Administrations. William Bradford Reynolds, head of the department's civil rights division, said the Reagan Administration is not interested in "displacing" workers who are currently employed under quotas...
ABOVE ALL ELSE, Kilson and the Black students at Harvard disagree on the uses of a college education. For the professor, Harvard can be viewed as a way of getting in with the power structure of whites Blacks can abandon their traditional customs and through a type of collegiate evolution become Yuppies, driving to work at IBM, parking their Nissans in the rows of Cadillac...