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...subtler was Gail Casson's disquieting solo, "Marooned." A crumpled piece of cloth served in turn as the dancer's nursed and dandled baby, as an alien object enkindling fear, as the skirt in which she danced with measured delicacy or frenzied abandon, and finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps...
When the curtain goes up again on May 2 the Faculty will have before them one last amendment, as well as a motion to abandon the Core in favor of a system of major and minor fields of concentration. Then they should finally get around to the Core--if not at that meeting, then certainly by the Faculty's May 16 get-together...
...proposed substitute motion calls on the Faculty to abandon the Core entirely and institute in its place a requirement that students choose a major and a minor field of concentration...
...costs and security problems except the people who have caused them. Issaku Tomura, the 69-year-old leader of the demonstrators, crowed that last week's disorder constituted "a great victory. We have prevented the opening of the airport and will fight on until it is abandoned altogether." The government is not likely to abandon Narita easily, and the end-or the beginning-of the world's most troubled airport is still not in sight...
...recent years Curtiss-Wright has not been a distinguished performer. Profits dropped from $19 million in 1976 to $16.3 million last year, while sales fell from $337 million to $310 million. Berner, a silver-thatched figure, has become something of a recluse. That is a stance he must now abandon; a proxy fight is a campaign for votes, and the attacker must be as much a politician as a businessman...