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...tingle was caused by a four-hour speech from Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Rumania's Communist Party. Totally unexpected and unheralded, it was a stinging attack on the Soviet Union that ran the gamut from Lenin through the Stalin era to the current Russian dispute with Red China. Tucked in, as pungently as the garlic in a Rumanian mititei sausage, was the expected plug for "nationalistic Communism" that Ceausescu has made popular in Eastern Europe...
...made up of Frogs and the other of a band of religious initiates. Here Munger is most skillful, as he breaks up great masses of potentially monotonous lines and, at one point, turns the stage into a daffy bacchanal, a kind of Attic "Hullabaloo." The choruses run the gamut from barbershop quarter to square dance, singing and chanting and generally cutting...
...activities of its members. Instead of being soldiers and administrator s of rural base areas providing support for the army, Party members became economic planners and faculty managers; they were called upon to run railways, banks, courts, educational systems, scientific institutes, in short, to take on the whole gamut of key jobs which needed to be performed in a large and complex society...
...Gamut of Art. Above all, Lithopinion is easy on the eye. Each issue contains several pages of graphic art, including line drawings, halftones, four-color photographs and embossed reproductions. The two issues to date have even varied in size-not to mention makeup and type face. "We want to show what lithography can do," says Swayduck. "We want to run the whole gamut of our art." Because Swayduck does not want anything to spoil the appearance of his magazine, he carries no advertising. Donations of paper stock and binding from manufacturers have enabled him to keep the cost of each...
...college student today who faces the draft and has any moral qualms about the war is going to have a major psychological hang-up," he said. For this reason, he said, there should be "a whole gamut of responses possible" for the potential draftee. He suggested that young men could "share the burden of the war, but not its purposes" by joining the Peace Corps or Vista "until there is a better war to fight," or by volunteering their services to a U.N. standing army...