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That frenzy of togetherness was an indication of growing dismay among many of the world's major oil-producing countries, as they seem unable to halt a major price war that has dramatically depressed the value of their most important product. The war, caused by a surplus of some 2 million bbl. of crude oil a day flooding onto world markets, showed no signs of abating last week. The spot price of oil, which two weeks ago fell through the $20-per-bbl. barrier for the first time in seven years, closed last week at about...
...read Jeff Wise's editorial of December 17 with dismay. I have spent the past semester researching AIDS and what I have learned strongly contrasts with Wise's argument for the quarantine. It is unfortunate that there are others who are also seriously considering such extreme and inappropriate measures...
...mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand in those picket lines. When we called Joseph to come down at 6 a.m. his response was shock and dismay: "You mean that people get up for work that early?" Again, he didn't show. For his obvious disinterest in working class struggle, Joseph was appointed labor reporter at The Crimson. To secure his post, Joe was told he would have to abide by Crimson discipline--he couldn't wear...
...some are more than 6 ft. high. Avedon has worked in this scale before, notably in the mammoth prints shown at his 1978 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Here size works to spare his subjects from condescension. These are not little cameos of dismay to be viewed at arm's length with the lips pursed. Facing figures of this dimension, hung so that their eyes are at or near eye level, the viewer feels himself to be the object of their scrutiny too. Confronted that way, one does more than take note of their...
...read your editorial about the Law School [Dec. 5] with dismay and amusement. Your carefully written editorial neatly side-stepped both the actual and salient realities at the Law School. Perhaps your readers would gain from understanding what these are, in fact...