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...closest to the true Lawrentian is Glenda Jackson, who made her reputation as Charlotte Corday in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Marat-Sade. Playing the repressed, inflammable Gudrun, she is a total re-creation of the impassioned, nearly liberated woman whose yards of shapeless clothes could not conceal her unrelieved sexual longing, and whose prudish conversation was almost always alive with allusions...
...Wellesley on February 27, 1970. Rev. Russell Johnson, who visited Cuba recently, agreed that Cuba now has a totalitarian regime. In a speech given December 2, 1961. Castro himself declared to have been a Communist for much of his life. He said that he had found it necessary to conceal this fact prior to the Revolution and also to conceal the real nature of his movement in order to gain power. Thus deceitfully he acquired power with the help of the majority of the Cuban people. The Communist Party numbered only 30.000 members in 1952. Castro has broken his word...
Harvard should also realize the power that it-with other universities-has to improve the utilities' records. Middle South points out that many other universities own blocks of its stock; and company spokesmen do not conceal their pride that The Treasurer of Harvard University sits on their board. The combination of these fiscal and intangible bargaining tools should be enough to lift Middle South at least to a more respectable position among the utilities...
...offices bound by stylized procedures, says Larrabee, followers of the Protestant Ethic who are more interested in getting work done than in obeying the rules are looked on as "sort of scabs." In self-defense, he adds, they often set up a kind of underground network. "They tend to conceal themselves, but they are in touch with one another, and they know whom they can trust." Such undergrounds also operate in government. Harlan Cleveland, an Assistant Secretary of State during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, once remarked that it was best to have an international crisis burst on a weekend...
...interests. In effect, the accounts of two firms that merged were treated as if they had always been one. Abraham Briloff, professor of accountancy at Manhattan's Bernard M. Baruch College, compares the technique to bikini bathing suits. "What they reveal is interesting," he says, "but what they conceal is vital...