Word: halloween
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...cannot meet. The Miser, by Molière, the Guthne troupe's second offering, almost visibly chased away the lingering ghost of a sad Hamlet. Director Douglas Campbell has made a stylized harlequinade of Molière's comedy of avarice, with curtsying dances and puckish pratfalls, Halloween masks and wopsical hats. It is more a costume ball than a play, and it stresses what is sheen-deep in Molière's wit rather than what is skinflinty. Still, in a glancing way, the master French comic moralist's point does get made-that...
...tells, for example, of Harry. 7. who seemed to go off in all directions, understanding but never completing an assignment. One Halloween a teacher offered him a sheet. "You can come as a ghost, Harry." the teacher said. "No. 1 think I'd rather go as the circulatory system." said Harry. Without help, he covered the sheet with a good diagram of the veins and arteries for his costume. The moral: Harry-and lots of chaotic-appearing kids-are good learners but rather impatient of proving their scholarship by doing routine assignments...
...Soyer were accomplished in another kind of language that quickly endeared them to their teachers. Whenever a holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet and moody paintings change little but never date...
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach flew to Oxford to plead with university administrators to get tough with unruly students. On Halloween, after a soldier had been hurt by a cherry bomb that exploded near his face, faculty members for the first time helped break up milling students, although their pleas did not increase respect for the troops. Shouted Student Housing Director Binford Nash: "They are trigger happy, and they will shoot. So for the sake of your mothers, go back to your rooms." University officials and M.P.s searched student rooms, turned up a startling array of weapons...
...week's end the Guild, whose contracts with Manhattan's seven dailies expired on Halloween, had struck only the News. This was clearly a backdown from the Guild's pre-strike threat of "no contract, no work." It was a strong indication, as well, that the strike was not likely to spread. In fact, although the Publishers Association of New York was publicly pledging solidarity, privately its leaders were putting pressure on the News to come to terms. Among Guild demands that the News has stubbornly refused to meet is one that the other six New York...