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...said officials had "carefully identified students right in front of the door, those directly involved in obstructing movement of the Dow representative." There is a "distinct possibility," he said, that those people will be severed...
Professor Arthur Ling conceived the layout for the new Runcorn as a figure eight with the town center at the intersection. The town is broken by parks into distinct neighborhoods which are connected by a rapid transit of minibuses...
...flat collages and reliefs and four freestanding aluminum constructions show that even his steadfast adherence to collage has not inhibited a distinct and rational progression in both style and content. In the early 1950s, Marca-Relli was concerned with semi-abstract figures of people, then moved on to swelling abstract panoramas of jostling, fluttering and flying scraps of canvas. From that period, 1958's Night Freight, says Marca-Relli, "has a feeling of movement which could have been the rumbling of a quiet freight filled with bodies being taken away in the night...
...Capuleti e i Montecchi, a bel canto relic that the company recently revived after a century of relative neglect. A retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story that owes little to Shakespeare, Capuleti, with Bellini's intimate scale, pervading sweetness and utter predictability, is a distinct contrast to Verdi's powerful, primitive themes and vaulting imagination. But the company -notably the two leads, Tenor Giacomo Aragall and Soprano Renata Scotto-traded the flawed gusto of its Trovatore and Nabucco performances for restraint and quiet artistry, making Capuleti the only production of the week to come off with cohesiveness...
Although he feels that he has learned more about the Negro after having lived in the North, Styron recognizes that a profound and distinct characteristic of the South is that the Negro is always there; he is an integral part of the tradition, the atmosphere, the scenery. And the white Southerner cannot help but to respond to this presence of Negroes. In Styron's words several years...