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Last week parents returned to Bishop McNamara's gym to negotiate for a second year. The sessions were 20-minute low-key talks at folding card tables. Says Savella: "It's kind of like hearing confession, except this is a business transaction." Negotiator Jack Pucell talked to one couple who had been ashamed of being unable to pay anything last year. Says he: "He's finally landed a job, and although he has had it only three months, they insist on paying the full cost." Another family installed a wood stove to cut utility bills so that...
...character's words--is admirably carried out in the play's staging. The stage and props are unembellished, and the action unceremoniously set off from the audience by some well-placed mattresses. The lighting is unobtrusive, and the music--fine accompaniment by piano and harp--is rather low-key for a musical...
...impulsive throwaway. So there is no direct damage, except in embarrassment to Haig the next time he greets Carrington. It may even be mildly reassuring to learn that the unvarnished Haig still exists, since in television interviews lately, Haig has been imitating Ronald Reagan's low-key, ho-ho evasions of tough questions. Reagan inhabits the role; Haig uncoavincingly feigns...
...fact, Johnson was so low-key about pursuing the field events that she did not even-go out for the track team when she first arrived at Harvard. She took a taste of Radcliffe crew ("They put me at stroke which really didn't surprise me"), then quit to pursue her love of basketball. It was only after leaving the hoop team because of its "pressure and lack of cameraderie" that Johnson went out for the tack team...
After a semester of of behind the scenes activity and low-key negotiations. S. Allen Counter and the race relations Foundation he heads may be emerging from the shadows The Foundation sponsored a speech last at the Science Center by Walter J. Massey a prominent Black scientist and head of the Argonne Laboratories, signaling a new phase of visible activity by the group which has been charged by the University with easing racial tensions on campus...