Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week 85% of the Dark Forest lay in smoking ruins, the result of a monumental five-week fire that, as An Xuyen Province Pacification Chief William Barrett said, was the result of "a set of circumstances that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started...
...CRIMSON is pleased to announce the election of Robin Barnes '69 of 24 Garden St. and Belmont; Michael J. Barrett '70 of Eliot House and Reading; Laura R. Benjamin '70 of Cabot Hall and Great Neck, N.Y.; Jeffrey D. Blum '70 of Dunster House and N. Bergen, N.J.; Esther Dyson '71 of Eliot Hall and Princeton, N.J.; Nicholas Gagarin '70 of Quincy House and Litchfield, Conn.; Sophie A. Krasik '70 of Comstock Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Elizabeth P. Nadas '69 of Eliot Hall and Wellesley; Mark R. Rasmuson '70 of Winthrop House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Sandra E. Ravich...
...shots in all. One bullet shattered a transformer, adding darkness to the sudden panic; yet throughout his ten-minute rampage, Held displayed the calm proficiency of a man who has mapped his assault in advance. Shot dead were Supervisors Carmen H. Edwards and Richard Davenport, Lab Technicians Allen R. Barrett and Elmer E. Weaver, and Superintendent Donald V. Walden. Picking his targets with care as he strode through the mill, Held also wounded James Allen, a superintendent; Richard Carter, a lab technician; David Overdorf, a machine operator, and a manager, Woodrow Stultz...
...group performs with the flow and precision of fine ballet. The company's most striking performances are its "recitations" of poetry. Through such simple gestures as twisting her fingers over her heart to show grief, stunning Audree Norton manages to evoke all the romantic passion contained in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee? In a short Chinese poem, Bernard Bragg, who studied under Marcel Marceau, creates visual haiku with the line "a wave carries the moon away and the tidal water comes with its freight of stars," by forming a crescent with his upraised hand...
Sandy Dennis plays Tyro Schoolmarm Sylvia Barrett and re-creates with considerable grace her abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...