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...VERY USED to things happening rapidly," chirps convent-bred Alizon Eliot in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning. The current Dunster House production of the existential comedy-drama should give her little reason to fret. In three acts spanning almost as many hours, the cast of this show prattles prosaically but interminably about whether it is more significant to hang, burn or continue with the business of living in the dreary Middle Ages. By the end of it all, the resolution of these and other conflicts in the plot seems less important than the necessity to stretch...
...parents who fret about not being trained teachers, John Holt has this advice: "It's like cooking?anybody can learn it. You can do a passable job by following a recipe book, and once you get some confidence in yourself, you take your nose out of the book and experiment on your...
...psyched," says Howard 'characteristically. "We're so close to the nationals, yet so far because we'll have a lot of tough games to get there, but we can do it." Not only is such spirit contagious, but coach Field is already beginning to fret about where the money would come from to pay for the fare to Washington for the late November happening...
Some officers, on the other hand, fret about women soldiers' time lost because of menstruation, pregnancies and abortions. Pentagon statistics, however, indicate that healthy women are very rarely incapacitated by menstruation and that abortions are comparable to minor illnesses, averaging 4.8 days of leave. Full-term pregnancies do cost the military an average of 105 days, but only about 8% of the women get pregnant in any given year. Besides, while women need more time off for gynecological reasons, men lose 10% more time because of drinking, 80% more time because of drug abuse, and have an AWOL rate...
Some Chicagoans criticized the program, arguing that the city has been losing its middle class mainly because of crime and poor schools, not high housing costs. Bankers also fret about possible disruptive effects on the regular mortgage market. Still, the experiment has appeal in an age of spreading downtown decay and rising taxpayer unrest. Two Colorado cities, Denver and Pueblo, plan similar programs to start in a few weeks...