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...when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...
...August 1967, with China in tumult, he and Liu were put on public trial. Liu's leg was broken in the spectacle, and he later died of pneumonia in a makeshift prison in the city of Kaifeng. At the trial Red Guards decried Deng as a "capitalist roader," a "fascist" and a "traitor" and shouted, "Cook the dog's head in boiling oil!" Confronted by such rantings for hours on end, Deng simply removed his hearing aid. What saved him from Liu's fate, evidently, was a simple thing as well. While Mao had always despised the patrician...
...audience's imagination. The removal of the pressure to visually imitate reality makes the parody all the more believable--without visual distractions, listeners can mentally connect the voices with the subjects being caricatured. Also, the radio-style format adapts nicely to the limitations imposed by the small makeshift stage in the cavernous, awkward Forum...
...kids got the chance to face paint, tell ghost stories and go on scary rides at the party," said Edy Y. Kim '97, one of the event's organizers. "It was a little makeshift, but the kids seemd to like it, and when it comes right down to it, they were most excited about getting a lot of candy...
That said, the Dunster sukkah has some problems. If you missed Sunday's festival (as I did), you would be hard pressed to know what in God's name that booth is doing in the middle of the courtyard. No signs hang on the makeshift walls, and I found no obvious notices around the house explaining the object and its purpose. Unless such displays are informative and accessible, they are of little worth, and possibly even offensive...