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...with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second act. This time the company attempts Man's rites of passage, and as the actors become engrossed in their story, they mellow into cooperation and exit smiling...
Escalating Spectacle. Four months ago, the jury was finally ready to present its conclusions. Amid rumors of high-level indictments, there was a blitz of legal maneuvering by Hanrahan and lawyers for some of the police. Their goal: to disband Sears' jury or at least to head off public announcement of its charges. For his part, Judge Power ordered the grand jury to hear more witnesses. Sears refused to comply, saying that the judge had no authority to make the jury do so. Enraged, Power then cited Sears for contempt and fined him $50 an hour round the clock...
...organized religion embraced the Jesus People as well, the greening effect on the churches could be considerable. Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago Divinity School feels that the Jesus People, frustrated by a complex society that will not yield to their single-minded devotion, may well disband in disarray. But even Marty says: "Five years from now you may have some better Presbyterians because of their participation in the Jesus movement." And the Rev. Robert Terwilliger of New York City's Trinity Institute says longingly: "There is a revival of religion everywhere?except in the church...
...press conference in the Hotel Commander Monday afternoon, school committee members announced that police will be called in only in the case of an emergency. They defined an emergency as a situation in which a group of students refuses to disband at the faculty's request...
Although Yale has withdrawn from the Rowing Association, she will not disband as a university. The minor exercises and functions will go on as usual.- Buffalo Express...