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There are other sequences which are dramatically confusing and tiresome: ragged little missions which fray out to death or nothing, and a succession of terse, disconsolate staff meetings. But as experiments in evocation-the way fighters look and feel and act-these scenes have seldom been equaled...
Figure from the Past. Into the second day's fray shuffled a bizarre figure out of Socialism's pre-Fascist past. She was tiny (5 ft.), pale Angelica Balabanov, leftist Socialist refugee from the Soviet Union, who in Italy had once been the friend and close associate of Benito Mussolini in his Socialist days. She has remained one of Italian Socialism's most legendary heroines. Said Balabanov: "I left Russia when I realized that the Revolution had been converted into a matter of political exploitation."* The delegates reacted as if they had been lashed...
Meanwhile, the fray between rival College dramatic organizations continued as the H.D.C. executive committee excommunicated several Dramatic Club members who participated in the recent Veterans Theater performances of "I Was King in Babylon...
...stage was set for violence. On four afternoons pickets and cops stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out. Clothes were torn off, nonstrikers' cars tipped over. About 5,000 people, many of them high-school kids, came out to the Milwaukee suburb and joined in the fray; many of them threw rocks, tomatoes, oranges and paint bombs at pickets, workers and cops alike...
With the usual intramural league leadership at stake, two undefeated elevens will clash at Soldiers Field this afternoon when Eliot faces Kirkland at 3:15 o'clock. The once-tied Mastadons will be seriously handicapped by a host of injuries received in the fray with Leverett last week, as they seek to make the first successful defense of the campaign against the Deacons' powerful T-formation...