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...Ambassador Charles W. Yost and ex-Saturday Review Publisher Norman Cousins for soon-to-be ex-U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. Borrowing Folk Singer Pete Seeger's guitar, Lennon stepped up to the mike with Yoko to give out with a peace song he had written. Excerpt: "Imagine no countries/ nothing to kill or die for/ no religion too./ Imagine all the people/ living for peace." U Thant put it differently. "The single most important impediment to global institutions," he said, "is the concept of 'my country, right or wrong...
...Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death of Soledad Brother George Jackson, killed three months ago in an escape attempt at San Quentin prison. Excerpt: "The prison guards they cursed him,/ As they watched him from above./ But they were frightened by his power,/ They were scared of his love./ Lord, Lord, so they cut George Jackson down./ Lord, Lord, they laid/ Him in the ground...
...notoriously keen on culture, and this fall the New Harvard Players are working in conjunction with the Eliot House Drama Society on an adaptation of five of Shakespeare's comedies. The director, Larry Bergreen '72, feels that plot is over-emphasized in drama, so he has put together excerpt containing certain themes, characterizations and songs for a unique view of the comedies. Billy Bauman '72 composed original music for the production. It will play in Eliot House December...
...review team has prepared a detailed breakdown of individual departments. This excerpt revealed that there are many departments without female teaching faculty. This condition implies that some chairmen deliberately screen out women applicants. The University must inquire into the hiring policies of all department chairmen. Particular attention must be given to those who have no or few women faculty. We realize that there are some academic disciplines in which there are very few women, but we are also aware of a long standing tradition of denying employment to women solely because they are women. Appropriate administrative machinery must be established...
...basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then if I don't like the results they get hell," he says. Certainly he leaves the finer points of culture to others. Once, when ATV was shooting an excerpt from The Master Builder, he asked an aide: "How's the Shakespeare coming along?" The aide murmured that it was Ibsen, not Shakespeare. "Well," said Sir Lew, "it's all costume...