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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remainder of the Union's demands focus on what initially appear to be financial minutiae irrelevant to undergraduates. But just as the Union has eschewed selfishness, so should undergraduates consider and support these demands on their merits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Union | 3/7/1973 | See Source »

Fechtor learned pure mime from Decroux, but he performs his own combination of mime and pantomime. "Pantomime is mostly concerned with plots, mime with situations," says Fechtor. "In pantomime, the hands and face are very important. In mime, the focus is on the chest. Decroux says, 'The chest is larger than the face, so why shouldn't it be more important...

Author: By Wendy Lesser, | Title: The Mime Speaks | 3/6/1973 | See Source »

...Italians estimated that 17 million cubic yards of earth would have to be moved for the plant's foundation; the final total was closer to 40 million. When construction stretched into the severe winter of 1968-69, work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built. Fiat had to rely on Soviet subcontractors to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: Ordeal on the Volga | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...modern restatement of Marxian theory. We see the individual as a product of the economic system in which he or she lives and works. We relate the development of social institutions--like education--to the evolution of the social relations of production and the associated class structure. We focus attention on the exercise of power and the generality of conflict in the process of production and in other spehres of social life. Our analysis is historical and dynamic, oriented towards both understanding and furthering the process of social change...

Author: By Samuel Bowles, | Title: Hardly a Surprise | 2/27/1973 | See Source »

These perceptions are interesting and perhaps even true, although Kelman's botched explanation of the Harvard strike renders suspect anything else he attempts to interpret. What is particularly galling is not the analysis itself, but its central focus in Kelman's political view. Rabid anti-Communism analytically divides the globe into the Free World/Communist Bloc opposition Kelman's elders have seemingly abandoned. Because the Communist enemy is so evil for Kelman, it follows that America must be virtuous, in small ways as well as substantial ones. Witness: Kelman enters an East German supermart and the place looks dull. "I longed...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Socialists and Grasshoppers | 2/23/1973 | See Source »

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