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Even in the face of fierce repression, even greater numbers of Chileans are finding the courage, born of desperation, and of hope, to openly demand an end to the 10-year dictatorship of General Pinochet and a return to democracy. Every month, with tear-gass, attack dogs, clubs and bullets, police attrack the non-violent protests and rallies of unarmed Chileans. Because of press censorship, the Chilean people cannot fully know what the world hears about events and conditions in their country: they do not know whether their cause has found support or anonymity in the outside world...
...such as polyester--a cardinally sinful item and zippers. "You have to have an idea of who you're trying to be If you want to be a peasant, don't buy velvet. You have to be authentic. People will point it out if you're not," says Dana Gass '85, who revitalized Harvard's SCA chapter last year...
...spectacle, the brainstorm of Dass M. Gass 85. was actually the first meting this year of the Harvard branch of the Society for Curative Anachronism, a national group who members aim to recreate the atone here of the middle Ages. The Society has branches across the country, including chapters at MIT. Wellesley, and Tufts...
...Gass said she enjoys the group's activities which include medieval dancing and cooking as well as jesting, because they provide "an escape from the pressures of my normal life. She added that the society's events are also geared toward giving the members a "learning experience...
...most important writers in America today, published in both The New Yorker and in paperback--a rare, if dubious, achievement. Barthelme leads the so-called "comic irrealist" movement in modern fiction, which includes such lesser writers as Richard Brautigan and William Gass. But in his latest collection of short stories, Barthelme proves more adventurous than successful; stretched beyond its limits, his genre becomes tedious and inconsequential...