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Once he had decided to endure, to go to Vietnam, there was no let up in challenges to his moral courage. O'Brien wrote of a soldier throwing a carton of milk at the head of an ancient, blind Vietnamese peasant. When asked now about his own actions, he is troubled. "I sort of wrote myself out of that scene. I just stood there and watched it happen," he says. "Looking back, I should have done something...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Red Badge | 5/8/1973 | See Source »

...cast is superb. The two parents, Nagg (Tom Costello) and Nell (Saskia Noordhoek Hegt), are like moths whose wings have iced. They flutter feebly, not in the text's ash bins, but in a laundry hamper and a G.E. refrigerator carton. Their crippled son Hamm (Gerry Bamman) treats the universe as a sorry joke, his servant Clov (Larry Pine) as a straight man, and his fate as a glorious chance to play M.C. in death's cabaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Death Is a Cabaret | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...that the sequence was particularly well suited to creating fantastic moments out of a series of everyday images. One of the earliest practitioners of the sequence, Duane Michaels, uses eight frames in one of his works to show a young girl coming into a room and climbing into cardboard carton, which then floats out of the frame, and apparently right through the ceiling...

Author: By Phil Pattion, | Title: Images In Sequence | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

Number one singles player Joy Skon, using a consistent cross-court game, outlasted Pine Manor's first, Marta Schaeffer, 6-3, 6-2. The Crimson number two player, Marcie Richmond, had to depend on her serve to defeat Toni Carton. Lissa Muscatine, who earlier in the afternoon had to defeat teammate Ingrid Sarapuu to play third singles, powered by Pine Manor's Karen Logar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Tennis Team Vanquishes Pine Manor, 5-0 | 10/25/1972 | See Source »

...quandary if he is of a mind to support the boycott. He cannot boycott the lettuce on the grounds that it is nonunion, since most of it comes courtesy of the Teamsters. If he wants to determine whether it is picked by the U.F.W., he has to examine the carton it came in to see if it bears Chavez's black eagle emblem. On the shelf, one head of lettuce looks much like another. While most shoppers go on blissfully buying lettuce with no idea that a boycott is under way, those who care are treated to conflicting advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Plight of Lettuce Eaters | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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