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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after the big flap over the battle for Angola and whether or not the U.S. should intervene to limit Soviet influence, how is the country doing? Answer: poorly...
...does the stale conception of a lecture as an active speaker and a passive audience stand up under fire. Besides the standard question-and-answer period there are many new variations on the lecturing form that keep the audience from drifting off. At the Common Stock Restaurant, 39 Moody St. in Waltham you can participate in a "speakerless speakers series" every Monday night at 7:30, so-named because no one person coordinates the discussion. This week's topic covers nonviolent games, and the audience will be invited (don't ask by whom) to try several of the games...
Silber's talk is one of a weekly series given by the Community Church of Boston featuring various liberal activists as speakers. The talks follow a short non-sectarian service and the whole ethical experience is topped off with a question-and-answer period and then a hat passing. The lecturer for the following Sunday, Jan. 23, will be Margaret Furnham, the defense attorney for Angela Davis and Ella Ellison, whose topic will be "Rape, Racism, and Criminal Justice." On Jan 30 Maxine Klein, director of the plays "Tania" and "Fan-shen" will give her thoughts on "Political Theater...
...dose" when he spoke. Daley gave a dull, technical, very formal speech and questions followed--mostly hostile ones,. Suddenly, the stiff, unnatural Richard Daley gave way to the mayor millions of Chicagoans worshipped. Malapropisms and Chicagoese returned--his blunt words chopped through the air. A student charged bossism. The answer to that was easy. "You either run the party or the party runs you," the mayor said...
About a year ago, Schumacher appeared on public T.V.'s "Nova", demonstrating intermediate technology's answer to the two ton tractor. Consisting of a blade attached to a motor driven winch, 50 yards of cable, and an anchor, the "intermediate plow" works as follows. One farmer walks ahead of the plow and plants the anchor. His partner then starts the plow's lawnmower engine and winches himself, plow and all, right up to the anchor. The first man runs ahead and sets the anchor again...