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...bobby socks were in vogue. Compared to the turbulent sixties, the fifties seemed peaceful and secure. Now that the seventies have reached the home stretch, nostalgia tripping has reverted to the more stormy sixties; many students look wistfully at this bygone era of rebellion and commitment. But this "look backward" runs the risk of idealizing the past, completely ignoring the problems of the previous decade. The Dunster Drama Society production of Hair (book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, music by Galt McDermot) avoids this trap, however, by presenting a harsh picture of 1968 reality with a spirit...
...many upwardly mobile young journalists, a successful career is one that leads from the city-hall pressroom to the statehouse beat to a national reporting job in Washington. Neal Peirce got it all backward. He started at the top, as Washington-based political editor of a respected national magazine. Today he covers city hall and the statehouse...
...chance to shoot films of jugglers, clowns and dancing girls, then see the film projected seconds later. Dubbing his new creation Polavision, Land pronounced it "a new technology to relate ourselves to life and to each other." He slipped only once, when he tried to insert a film cassette backward into the new system's camera. He fumbled, got it right and bowed to a round of applause...
Charlotte's fear, Grace Strasser-Mendana tells us, is that of looking back. The axiom, "Remember Lot's Wife, avoid the backward glance," dictated Charlotte's life until Marin disappeared. And then despite her outward ignorance of the world around her--her desire for this child like protection from life--the past is unwillingly thrust upon her as an explanation for the present complications. But for a person who has always believed that things work out fine in the end, the rising to the surface of past failures is the ultimate blow. "It wasn't the way she thought...
...Harris Trust & Savings Bank and Murray Weidenbaum of St. Louis' Washington University. Their main complaint: the program's failure to put enough emphasis on increasing energy supplies by eventually lifting all controls on oil and gas and letting the market determine prices. Says Sprinkel: "It's backward economics. We're not allocating enough resources for investment." In addition, Greenspan fears that the program will create a new bureaucracy, add to businessmen's uncertainty and result in a continuing lag in much needed investment in plant and equipment in all segments of industry. Says Greenspan...