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...Mahoney said last night that "This man [Rudolph] doesn't seem to know what he wants to do." According to Mahoney, Rudolph told MBTA officials that the rotary would be permanent, not temporary. The MBTA then spent $8,000 to change switches for their trackless trolleys to conform with the new pattern. It will now cost them another $10,000 to change the switches back...
...anything, seems too comfortable during the numbers. With the dialogue, he is merely pedestrian, and consequently misses the big laughs. Ronni Lynn Unger, as Reno Sweeney, shares Kozol's virtues and his faults, except in one song, "I Get a Kick Out of You," which simply refuses to conform to her vocal talents. It's a great song; the result is unfortunate...
Today's Soviet citizen has not quite reached those heights, and does not breathe Trotsky's name. Nor does his society in any way conform to what Marx's followers set out to build...
...diet of banality and irrelevance which it is not worth the while of a child to learn or that of a teacher to teach." Of 32 different book series he had avail able in his classroom, the majority were more than ten years old. Creative children had to conform to the rigid thinking of teachers or face ridicule. He cites one gentle but emotionally disturbed boy who "drew lovely lyrical cows and pleasant horses lifting up their hooves to rub their noses" but only succeeded in throwing his art teacher into a tizzy. "Look at what he's done...
...hair of the male human animal grows more slowly than crab grass-about ½ in. to 1 in. a month. But it never stops growing this side of the grave. Were it not for the tyranny of fashion, which insistently summons men to the barber, they might all conform to the Book of Leviticus, which commands that "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." In these shaggy times, which can produce a Van Cliburn, an Allan Ginsberg and a Joe Namath, not to mention the Beatles, the Monkees...