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Someone two weeks ago mailed all 100 U.S. Senators a four-page pamphlet that was written by the ultra-right-wing John Birch Society and demanded President Nixon's impeachment. The grounds for this action were unblinkingly harsh: Nixon's "deliberate treason" in the conduct of both foreign and domestic policy. Almost as bad, the diatribe went on, "Mr. Nixon has spent more money-and has spent it more wastefully-than any other President, monarch, dictator or ruler of any kind in all human history...
...saved $2000 per year by firing the 20 janitors without notice or severance pay, as well as avoiding paying the $600 per year that the legally-required raise would have cost. A committee of alumni concerned about the firings had good reason to damn the administration's acts as "Harsh, stingy, socially insensitive, and considerably short of the highest ethical standards of the time...
...cheeks, but not from sentiment. "I was weeping for all the bright-faced children who were leaving their last chance behind," she writes in Getting Ready (Morrow; $7.95). Her new book is both a remarkable chronicle of a white family's confrontation with inner-city schools and a harsh indictment of an educational system that is a disaster for most of its pupils...
Part of the problem lies with the rash use of theater-in-the-round. Close audience proximity places harsh demands on the facial features of amateur actors; group scenes require complex and flawless stage directions in this circular space; lighting is made difficult; technical effects more intrusive. Virtually all of the play's striking visual moments--as when the rapacious soldier lurches bare-chested and vain from the bedroom of the Jew's fiance--would have been as effective on a conventional stage...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has elected the following 12 juniors: Mark S. Campisano of Winthrop House and Norwood; Haldan N. Cohn of Dunster House and Redwood City, Calif.; Michael J. Connelly of Dudley House and Quincy; Griffith R. Harsh IV of Kirkland House and St. Louis, Mo.; David S. Jerison of Winthrop House and Lafayette, Ind.; Robert K. Lazarsfeld of Quincy House and New York, N.Y.; John J. McCarthy III of Quincy House and Stoneham; Richard P. Mendelson of Winthrop House and Jacksonville, Fla.; Bruce R. Musicus of Eliot House and Chicago, III.; Rhesa L. Penn of North...