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...linen service came under attack last term a hen in March a poll of freshman subscribers revealed that 63 per cent were dissatisfied with HSA's operation. They complained about inconvenient hours at the exchange depots short sheets, and solid linen...
...others are blond wood so delicately carved that they give the impression of lace. A great find was a group of clever toy whistles made by craftsmen in the Arkhangelsk and Tula regions from 1890 through 1910. The whistles are in the form of horses, dogs, bears, a hen and her chicks, and peasants, and are gaily decorated with bright yellow, peacock blue, and magenta stripes. My favorite one depicts a troika--three little horses' heads connected to one tiny horse's body...
...story appeared in the Times under Craft's byline describing a visit by Stravinsky to Strasbourg, France. According to Craft: "After unpacking [Stravinsky] sped to the roof restaurant ostensibly for a view of the old city, which clings to the cathedral like chicks around the mother hen, but he was soon seated and consuming crayfish at an alarming rate...
...American education, too. Their school, located in a church in the farming village of Barbiana, was started for children who have failed or who have nearly failed public school. Because the parents of girls from town believe that a woman can live her life with the brains of a hen, only boys attend the school, which the authors acknowledge as "racism." However, like Herbert Kohl's sixth grade children in Harlem or the children in George Dennison's First Street School in lower Manhattan, the students improve when instructional flexibility, Individual encouragement, and a stress on group development are substituted...
...caper movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question, but his actual motives are mundane...