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...walking and speaking which well confirmed her statement at the end of the play that she has been a party to these lethal teacher student relations forty times a day ever since they began. The conclusion of the play inspires the monstrous vision of an endless succession of hapless pupils each turning up for the lesson which is to prepare her for adulthood, only to be done in and coffined by her instructor...
Harvard baseball teams have defeated Brandeis nine times in ten meetings between the two schools, and in the last five years the Crimson has averaged nearly 20 runs per game against the hapless Judges. This season Brandeis has a 5-7-1 mark and is 1-4 in the Greater Boston League; in those five GBL games Brandeis has yielded an astronomic 56 runs...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR (London). Into the quicksands of death march the mind-forsaken legions of Joan Littlewood's bitter, brittle, bizarre, tragicomic descant on the asininity and hapless gallantry of World War I. The show's sentimental ballads and parade-ground tempos are coated with steely irony; the weapons are not Krupp's but Brecht...
...point, in 1869, the hapless Dominicans actually sought annexation by the U.S. and won support from President Ulysses S. Grant. Congress refused on the grounds that it would violate the country's sovereignty. In 1916 the U.S. did the next best thing?it sent in the marines after a bloody series of revolts. Unlike the intervention in Haiti, there were no puppet Presidents. In the words of the U.S. Navy's official order, it was "military occupation . . . military government . . . military law." The occupation lasted eight years, and along with their public works the marines created a national police...
...diesel locomotives so that those of each line will be able to couple electrically with those of the other. They have plans under way to alter freight yards, lay necessary connecting tracks and mesh services at major passenger stations. Few of the plans involve improvements in service for hapless passengers. The only solution there, as far as most railroadmen are concerned, is to take them off the trains altogether...