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...Stormont parliament, however, Hume demonstrated brilliance as both constitutionalist and politician. In early 1970, Hume was instrumental in forcing the Unionists to disband the B-Specials, a unit of the government's Royal Ulster Constabulary which had done a great deal with their repeated partisan Protestant stands to heighten tensions between the Catholics and Protestants. Later, he proved almost singlehandedly that the British troops' presence in Ulster was unconstitutional and forced the London government to enact legislation "legalizing" their presence...
...Matthew McKeon, marched a platoon into a swamp at Parris Island, S.C. Six of the recruits drowned, and McKeon, after a brief prison sentence, was restored to good standing. Bronson's acquittal and the likelihood that charges will be dropped against others involved in McClure's death heighten fears that the corps will not be able to reform itself...
...campaign, predicts TIME Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, "will force issues, heighten tensions and test nerves" as past elections rarely have. Ostensibly voters will choose from among nine parties; but in fact the campaign will be a three-way struggle among the Christian Democrats (D.C.), the Communist Party (P.C.I.) and the Socialists (P.S.I.). The makeup of any new government and the chances for the emergence of the long-heralded "historic compromise" in which Communists would finally move out of opposition and into a ruling coalition depend on how well each party does in the voting for the 630 Chamber...
THERE ARE MOMENTS when Inserts seems to aspire to tragedy and others when it verges on absurdist farce. The broadly farcical sequences lighten what might otherwise be a plodding melodrama and heighten the pathos of The Boy Wonder's plight. A contrast is effected between The Boy Wonder's intelligence and dedication to cinematic art, and the foolish self-serving idiocy of the world around him. At one point, Stephen Davies as Rex, dubbed the Wonder Dog, an empty-headed young undertaker with visions of film stardom who moonlights as porno stud, proposes a perverse idea for flaunting his masculinity...
...pages. Put this way, the senior thesis metamorphosed into the senior-long-research-paper and was that much less attractive. But at this point we must digress for a moment. Parallel to the development of the long specialist paper came two other changes that, taken together, tend to heighten seniors' ambivalence about this new monster. One was the growth of an ideology that holds that student life must be fun every minute. This belief has a surprisingly diverse constituency, running from jocks to aristocrats to the endangered Harvard hipsters. For these people, the idea of so much deferred gratification seems...