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...March 5, 1976 that Boston State College campus police had engaged in "widespread political surveillance of suspected activist students and teachers." Rosenthal said last week he believes photographs taken of CAR members at the Avi Nelson incident on April 15 1975 were the evidence Morrissey had claimed to possess at the meeting of the Special Committee on Tenure...
...dancers are expert stylists. The songs and the singers possess a matching beauty, and at rehearing It Don't Mean a Thing, Sophisticated Lady and Solitude, one realizes that in Ellington we lost not a duke but a king...
Lusterman and Norman don't possess Chassler's presence, her power to absorb an audience with each slight twitter. The two perform well in the idiom of Chassler's movement and occasionally hit upon the nexus of subjectivity/objectivity. Yet neither command Chassler's magic...
...cummerbunds are "de rigeur." A favorite social disease is known fondly as "The Syph". All is familiar and in its place, for good or for worse. You are meant to enter his world of social fatuousness, accept his intimate chit-chat as personal conseil and assume that you possess all the sports cars, villas and yachts that are referred to. As a result, you and your mythical antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both engage are conducted in two dialects: "pukka", to which you, the sporting aristocrat, are sometimes entitled...
Student activists at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are taking a novel approach to the problem of organizing a student body. In an attempt to institutionalize student power, they are trying to form a student union which would possess all the legal powers of a collective bargaining unit...