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...Collection of College Words and Customs.” Four members of the class of 1820—James F. Deering, Charles Butterfield, David P. Hall, and Joseph Palmer—were gathered in Hollis 13 when one suggested Deering should lambast his professors by delivering mock lectures in broken Latin. Hilarity ensued, and soon Deering suggested that the friends should invite others to join their revelry...
...Justice, rose to question the CIA recruiter about the agency’s involvement in a 1973 coup in Chile. After Raju revealed that he is not a U.S. citizen, a fellow activist dressed as an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agent seized Raju in a “mock deportation” and dragged him out of the auditorium...
...disruption varied: their base tactics ranged from coughing incessantly to the point where none of the panelists could be heard, interrupting presentations to ask ludicrous questions such as “Isn’t it true you train your employees to torture,” staging a mock deportation of an ethnic minority protestor midway through the discussion, clapping obnoxiously to halt the dialogue, and ridiculing students who posed legitimate questions to the panelists. A protestor sitting three rows behind me physically made himself vomit...
...names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages of war remains onstage during the final lighthearted scenes, when the King shifts from fighter to lover, as if to mock his charm. The production is vigorous, persuasive, at moments unforgettable, and in Kenneth Branagh, 24, it features a potential heir to the legacy of Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud. Branagh has the animal magnetism of a leading man and the cerebral fire and ice of a character actor. He brings...
...Berkeley, about 200 protesters staged a sleep-in vigil in April that culminated in 159 arrests. Harvard has seen a dozen demonstrations, including a silent ten-day vigil in front of the college's spiritual center, the statue of Founder John Harvard. At Cornell, students built a settlement of mock South African shanties and lived inside them until a fire swept through the area and the local fire department declared the huts a hazard...