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...scientists studying the mountain concede that their activity and reports have proved costly to Concrete. But the Forest Service insists that placing threatened areas off limits makes eminent sense. Mount Baker does not have to awaken fully and erupt in order to be deadly. All the restless giant need do to cause a disaster is to shrug off its snowy and earthen coverings...
...dream" of uncomprehended life through which the family has been wandering blindly and from which the son is finally awakened--by the spirit of his father--is much more a nightmare. But to awaken from it can only bring death. It should be a nightmare in which the audience becomes as immersed, as was Strindberg in his own anguish. Although Naylor as the son succeeds in drawing the audience into his personal drama and DeLorme succeeds in adding to this a further dimension, one is rarely allowed to feel that universal pity that was so significant a part of Strindberg...
...quibbling over habeas corpus rights, the military has largely taken over the educational system and labor unions have been virtually eliminated. And conveniently enough there has been an up-surge of anti-semitism. Even in the days preceding the coup the right was beginning to attempt to awaken anti-semitism, as indicated in an editorial published in La Prensa, the official daily of the Christian Democratic party on August...
...made a bid last July for immediate elections, which he would almost certainly have won, thereby acquiring vastly enlarged powers. The officers rebuffed him, fearing that he was attempting to take over the revolution for himself. Lately, Spínola had begun making appeals to the "silent majority" to "awaken and defend itself actively against extremist totalitarianism." The appeal appeared to be a veiled warning against Portugal's well-organized Communist Party...
...future should have attempted. But Charles Lindbergh's 1927 pioneering solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane that cruised at less than 100 m.p.h. was surely the most glorious stunt of the century-one of those pristinely pure but magnificently eloquent gestures that awaken people everywhere to life's boundless potential. For most of his life Lindbergh was looked upon as an argonaut of the air age, a Ulysses from Minnesota. When he died of cancer of the lymphatic system last week at age 72, America lost not only one of its pioneers...