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America lost 56,480 men in Viet Nam, the last irreclaimable body count. The nation also misplaced many thousands of men and women who did make it home. To embrace them now may be a complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done-done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm...
...team's revitalization. When the Celtics of the mid-'70s became clogged with ballhogs and playground freelancers, Auerbach decided to clean house. His first major acquisition was Maxwell, a former University of North Carolina-Charlotte standout. Spindly at 6 ft. 8 in., 217 lbs., Maxwell looks awkward walking across a room, but displays a spidery grace leaping for rebounds or twisting over the outstretched arms of defenders as he soars for a layup. Last year he was joined at forward by Larry Bird, the Indiana State star who was a first-round draft choice as a junior...
Behan, though, felt that The Hostage seemed contrived. Drawing from the music hall tradition of entertainment, the play includes songs and dances that serve more to keep the audience amused than to accelerate the plot or enhance a theme. In an awkward second act scene, the actors break character, joke about the author, and have a little party onstage. It's strange interlude that seems merely thrown in to break up the play's growing tension and fails to fit into The Hostage's overall scheme...
Several assassins have conveniently left behind incriminating diaries and letters. Some have also left behind books and clippings of previous assassinations, a reminder that these murders, like hijackings, can break out in mini-epidemics. Who knows? Another awkward loner may today be cutting out articles about John W. Hinckley...
...also told the rights committee that the current debate on the Dowling Committee's report on student government may make it an awkward time to examine disciplinary procedure, Jacques T. Ya Deau '82-3, a rights committee member, said yesterday...