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After the police left, the Lampoon editors pretended to fire a cannon, Richard J. Westelman '79 said yesterday...
...HCHP board of directors adopted these figures as targets in a motion passed two weeks ago, but they were hardly aiming high. Richard Cannon, HCHP director of development and planning, said the figures were more reasonable expectations than they were difficult goals. But the plan's directors are not to be blamed for aiming low. They want to avoid turning the program into a health care monolith. As Cannon put it, "We don't want to create a McDonald's for medical care." However, if the plan reaches its expected enrollment for 1982, and if no competing plan has emerged...
...golfe be utterly cryed downe and not to be used." James was increasingly alarmed by the golf mania sweeping his realm, which was distracting able-bodied men from the archery practice required during wartime. "Fiery face" later met an untimely and befitting death when he was killed by a cannon that blew up while he was inspecting the muzzle...
Brock suddenly becomes the indispensable man in the middle. Satan needs the Limbo Line to transport cannon across the bottomless mud of the gluttons' Third Circle. The archangel Michael, ready to wage another Miltonic war against Satan, needs the railroad to carry his chariot of fire across the same...
...desperate to lead the revolution finally taking place in Russia. A snowball in hell-wants to turn the civilized world into a standing committee of workers' deputies. Tom Stoppard's brilliant play Travesties opens with a dark Flander's field's morning. The lights go down; sounds of booming cannon are heard, mingled curiously with birds singing. A red neon sign floats up from the stage, flashes on: SILENCE, it commands. The theatre-goers giggle nervously; Stoppard wants you to feel the tension. This is his show and you are the interloper here. The sign seems a smug reminder...