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Andy Young resigned [Aug. 27] with grace despite tremendous pressure. Two years from now when a battle-weary Israel finally sits down with the P.L.O. at the negotiating table, the framed picture of St. Andrew will beam down from the wall. People will then remember August 1979 and say, "Ah, that was his finest hour...
...Green Road Housing Project in Michigan do not talk much like their well-to-do white classmates at the neighborhood King elementary school. Some of it is simple pronunciation: "We do maf work" for "We do mathematics work." Some of the differences lie in odd verb tenses: "She-ah hit us" for "She will hit us." More often the difference involves the verb "to be." Green Readers say, "He be gone" when they mean, "He is gone a good deal of the time"; "He been gone" when they mean, "He's been gone for a long while...
...will probably hear Registration referred to as a "zoo." Ah yes, but in most zoos you can but popcorn and candy and have a reasonably good time. In this zoo, you are the animals. True, you must wait in line, which is an indignity rarely bestowed on your average giraffe. But once inside, weird people try to do weird things to you. Like get you to settle outstanding term bill balances, denoted by the infamous "Red Dot" of measles fame. And multitudes of undergraduate organizations will try to solicit...
...boldest regional theaters in the nation. Broadway dares not take many chances, but Brown does, and the result is a series of plays staged first in New Haven and then moving on to New York: The Changing Room, Streamers, The Shadow Box, The Gin Game and a revival of Ah, Wilderness! Brown, who has already branched out into television and is planning to go into movies, is not talking idly when he says: "We've become equally proficient with Broadway in overall quality." A year ago the Long Wharf won a Tony Award for its "extraordinarily high level of performance...
...Ah, come on, Teddy. Stop teasing us and run for the office of President of the U.S. We need you more than ever before...