Word: perche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angell, the shadow of a face hovering behind the dead gray membrane of the page, was a slightly stooped and slightly touched old gentleman carefully picking his way through the crowd--a dignified scramble over fat knees and waving programs--making his way to a lazy bleacher perch, pulling out his pencil, squinting from beneath his cap. Haunting the parks from San Diego to Fenway, living out of a duffel bag, sadly crusading for the survival of true baseball fanaticism in a cruel, uncaring world...
...movement of the sea of minor characters is much more skillful than their acting. The cherub's voice cracks and the angels' shrieks are irritatingly devoid of feeling, but they scamper and perch insolently and daringly on the tiered balcony of their Kingdom. The court scenes are a frenzied brew of comic motion, alternating between medieval Italian dance, bouts of wrestling and the Comedian Dell'Arte's pantomime. Among all the dancers the devil's mute partner, Salme (Charlotte Spanos), stands out. Her sinuous form oozes gratuitous corruption. Pulcinello's (Kevin Grumbach) mime effortlessly steals the show for awhile. Even...
...improvement for women or minority faculty across the nation. He might as well have stuck to Harvard, where the statistics are almost as gloomy. In a few areas there has been progress, but black admissions are down in some schools, most of Harvard's small number of female teachers perch tenuously on the lower rungs of the ladder, and blacks still comprise less than two per cent of the tenured faculty. Not impressive, assuredly, and one possible reaction would be to condemn all attempts to improve the situation. Just as plausible, however, would be to condemn the situation itself...
...group of 30 Explorer Scouts in Los Angeles. For a month, the Scouts-both boys and girls-have been working with the Hollywood division of the L.A. police as auxiliary crime spotters. One night a week groups of the uniformed Scouts, armed with binoculars and a walkie-talkie, perch on high buildings to watch the streets for suspicious activity. So far, calls from the 16-to 18-year-olds to cruising police cars below have accounted for three arrests-on burglary and narcotics charges...
...Harvard team which looked anything but impressive a month ago finds itself this morning with a winning record, a sixth-place perch in the ECAC, and an eight-place ranking in the nation. Now all it has to contend with are exams--the blue-book variety--and the thought of BU a week from Monday. Happy Reading Period...