Word: disturbers
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...administration met only the first demand. Crews now work between 4 p.m. and midnight, when it will presumably not disturb students in their dormitories...
...convention, observed that "everyone here looks like they have a relative who is a West Point graduate. They all look like if they had sex they wouldn't get excited. They look like they wouldn't call for help if they were drowning because they didn't want to disturb anyone. The Democrats are a coffee-shop crowd. The Republicans look like they own the restaurant...
...might be possible to sympathize with Adam and the things that disturb him if he were about 15 years younger. The Boys and Their Baby might turn into a sort of 1980s Catcher In The Rye. But Adam is 30 years old, a college graduate, yet he seems completely incapable of making decisions on his own. So what does Adam do? Like a typical child who can't handle his problems, Adam just picks up and leaves Boston, fleeing to San Francisco where he moves in with his college roomate with whom he hasn't spoken in over a decade...
...Woolf?, before he was too old to be an Angry Young Play-wright, he wrote two one-act attacks on convention, complacency and middle-class values. Thirty years later, The American Dream and The Zoo Story have lost some of their relevance--and thus some of their power to disturb the complacent viewer. But Albee's disarming absurdity and brutal frankness remain, and thanks to a talented Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Theater company, those qualities can still make audiences squirm in their seats...
...armies face one another across half as many checkered playing fields. The National Open, a major annual chess tournament, is about to begin. A short, plump man dressed completely in black calls the contestants to order. "If you lose a game," he wryly suggests, "congratulate your opponent. Do not disturb the tournament by exploding, screaming or weeping loudly." On hearing this, Hans Berliner breaks into a grin. A former world chess-by-mail champion, Berliner will not play in the tournament himself. Instead he has entered his computer, a formidable piece of work named Hitech. "Hitech," ( says Berliner with quiet...