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...attractively but thinly disguised as proletarians on the rise. The time is turn of the century; the place, a Scottish coalpit town complete with oppressed miners, strikes and lockouts, an unfeeling owner and a bloody-minded mine superintendent named Mr. Brothcock. Crichton's story centers on a Scots lass with a will of steel who marries a fine free Highlander, turns him into a miner and plots the escape of their family, the Camerons, from pit and penury through years of sacrifice and discipline. Naturally they do escape, not in the way expected, but to America where one suspects...
...Patience the native, young loveless girl who finds true love and happiness etc., etc., is properly native and young. She steals the show more than once with her singing, her stage presence and her low musical pun in the first act Nancy Urqhart Traverse as Jane, the lovelorn lass who is by her own admission, "massive," gives a superior performance, especially in her elephantine pas de deux in the second act with Bunthorne...
...story is basically melodrama, but contains the seeds of something more complex. Dustin Hoffman plays David Sumner, an American mathematician who marries a stunning Cornwall lass (Susan George) and moves back to a farm in her hometown. It's primitive, this Cornwall; all the girls seem to have married out, and the only workers we see are farmhands and local craftsmen--aside from the minister, the sheriff, and the bartender...
...question because it has admitted only one student from its own program, and because Upward Bound here is associated with a graduate school rather than with the University as a whole. "It has not been in line with the Federal idea of how the program should operate," Lass said...
Funding through the central administration "speaks to one of the problems," Lass said. "But it doesn't speak to all of them. There is the question of undergraduate admissions, for example...