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...were living in a mock shantytown in Harvard Yard and I wrote a letter explaining that I had once thought about living in a mock shantytown in my backyard, would you feel better? If I claimed to understand how much you were sacrificing and suffering in your mock shantytown, would you feel supported? Would you feel respected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shanties | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

Surrounded by mock shanties and uniformed Harvard police, Silvers also told the University to turn its glance inward. In a soft, rich voice, the activist argued Harvard has drifted from its ideal of truth to become a repressive, secretive community...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The CRR: Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities? | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...revolver, and his interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Surprise Birthday Treat | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Berman emphasized yesterday that the rally was planned long before divestment activists set up a shantytown in the Old Yard, and was not in any way meant to mock the divestment movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mets Fanatics Stage Widener Rally; Cubbies and Fringe Boosters Agitate | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

Clearly rising above the general adequacy is Miller, whose combination of verbal and athletic dexterity makes Jack Point at once the most convincing and most entertaining figure in the show. Whether leaping and somersaulting across the stage or acting the mock-Shakespearean trickster Gilbert envisioned Point to be, Miller possesses the vibrancy necessary to ignite the show...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Little Nice Music | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

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