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...cooperation between RUS and the College Council almost ended before it began last spring, when the Council rejected four drafts of the RUS constitution. Cliffies had voted to abolish RGA during the winter, and were left without recognized representation until May, when a fifth version of the constitution was finally approved by both the Council and Radcliffe students...
...Juliet appear afresh as two incredibly articulate but believably, agonized teen-agers whose turf happens to be Quattrocento Verona. Too young to buck the Establishment-the Italian city-state with its machinery of epic feuds and rituals-they are finally undone by their passions. Death enlarges them when they abolish their parents' hate. They become, as Juliet's father puts it in the play's epilogue, "the poor sacrifices of our enmity...
...Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent: "Ban the bombs," "Abolish police," "Change the world," "Abolish the state." This goes on far too long. The Living Theater persistently confuses duration with intensity. As the shouted responses turn the house into a kind of cathedral of the absurd, the cast moves onstage, forms a circle, and utters a low, collective, unrelenting wail...
...teaching fellows had received two "cost-of-living" pay raises between 1962 and 1966, and in the Spring of 1967 the Federation of Teaching Fellows began to push for another increase. The Federation also asked the university to abolish the pay differential between junior teaching fellows (those who have not completed their residence requirements for their Ph.D. degree) and senior teaching fellows (those who have...
...AUTOMATIC PLAN was first described by Thomas Jefferson in 1801 and was urged as recently as 1966 by Lyndon Johnson. It would abolish the electors, award their votes to each state's popular winner, and thus eliminate unpledged and "faithless electors" (17 in the past two decades) who might break their party pledges. Chief drawback of the automatic system: it would not abolish the two features that contribute to the election of minority Presidents: the winner-take-all system, and the unequal weights given to voters in different states...