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...Compared with life, which is so often messy, chaotic, haphazard, and inconclusive, a football game is a masterpiece of logic and lucid or ganization...
Nader's report has already come under attack from at least one industry spokesman. L. Malcolm Rodman, executive director of the Maryland Health Facilities Association, called the study "clandestine, superficial and haphazard." But the committee, which began its current investigations in January, seemed generally impressed by the testimony of Nader's young investigators. Senator Frank Moss, a Utah Democrat, is looking toward establishment of a corps of federal inspectors to see that the homes come up to standard. Moss also hopes to change the system of federal payments to reward those homes that provide high quality care...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences had no authority at all, and when it finally did pipe up, alienated the other faculties in the University. The Faculty also proved too unwieldy to state a coherent rationale for their vote. The alumni were unable to respond, except in a haphazard poll taken by the Harvard Bulletin which had little effect. The Committee of Students and Community Relations (CSCR) probably studied the issue in the most detail, but the Corporation serenely ignored its existence...
Harpo's choices of plays for production are never haphazard. The choice of this play of Brecht's seems particularly sensitive. Harpo is committed to do plays as much the way they were written as possible. Director Laurence Senelick must then intend Drums in the Night primarily as a statement about Weimar Germany. I have no real way of knowing how well he succeeds. The play seems like what Weimar seems like, anomie everywhere, drunken revelry, heavy humor, recrimination and insecurity. Anna's super bourgeois parents, played by Martin Andrucki and Raye Bush, are convincing, and though they are without...
...Restaurant and Alice in Wonderland. The place abounds with tutorials and individual projects. Freed from formal departments and competition for tenure (there is none), teachers shape their courses to their own interests and those of their students. Results have been mixed. Courses range from imaginative interdisciplinary projects to haphazard bull sessions. Some students, who seemed unable to learn anything at conventional colleges, have blossomed at Franconia. Others have found license as unsatisfying as control...