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DRAWING ROOM drama is a sly beast. With conversation at a maximum and action at a minimum, this domestic animal tends to lie down and play dead just when the playwright is striving for most tension. Actors strain for excitement while the play is sound asleep, hiding under polished walnut divans and Aubusson carpets...
...then the need for discretion, self-control and clear prose will be greater than ever. And if the beast can be tamed, the benefits of freer expression and the wider dissemination of information will be multiplied over and over and over and over and over...
Beauty and the Beast, Friday and Saturday at 5:55, 9:25; Black Orpheus...
...that it is better to give than to receive," said one briefing officer. But the women will be exempt from boxing and wrestling; they will substitute judo and karate. The female plebes, however, will undergo the same painful, often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast Barracks." Its main features: incessant needling from upperclassmen, split-second obedience to their slightest commands and constant criticism of plebes' posture. Though women are still barred from combat, female cadets will have to learn how to heft the 10¼-Ib. M-14 rifle and to fire...
...startling percentage of these individuals, if a review of recent anniversary reports is a valid indication, say they are satisfied with their achievements since graduation and describe their personal lives as rewarding. Indeed, for most, the corporate beast that Kimball feared would turn every individual into a pre-fabricated "organizational" man has never reared its ugly head. But what is noticeably lacking from the often lengthy autobiographical sketches in recent 25th reunion books is a sense of obligation to anything higher than thyself and thine organization. The same people who describe their successful efforts in helping Exxon sell ever more...