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Councillors last night criticized Healy for failing to hire more Cantabrigians. Although applicants who lived in Cambridge at least a year prior to the June, 1994 police exam received preference in hiring, residency is not required to be a police officer in Cambridge...
...city manager said hiring both Cantabrigians and minorities is often difficult. "I thought instead of criticism I would get some praise" for increasing the number of bilingual officers, Healy said. "I wish they were all Cambridge residents but that is not how the civil-service exam works...
...recruitments. We do encourage people to take the exam," Healy added. "But you have to go with the top people who are qualified on the list...
...narration proceeds at a leisurely pace, as Marler recounts one non-earth-shaking episode after another: a failed date, a concert, his studies. The climax of the play is the day of his exam; Marler cleverly intertwines his own anxiety with a radio documentary about Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, finding inspiration in Kennedy's growing resolve. We even get to hear some of what Marler said during his exam, recited while a passage from The Four Seasons is played...
These witty asides constitute the main entertainment of Posthumous Improvisations precisely because there is no dramatic tension in the events being described; we are never absorbed by Marler's struggles. We know that he will pass his exam in the end. Oswald simply disappears, depriving us of any deeper insight into his problems, or at least the pleasure of a final confrontation...