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...much of the upheaval at the Faculty Club, where his workers protested against new outside managers and what they called unfair overtime practices. Threatening strikes and causing several scenes inside the building itself during the school year, Bozzotto rocked the traditionally sophisticated and removed air of the club with real-world concerns...
...spring of 1961, the big issue on campus incited more than 4000 students to riot and brought out the Cambridge police with tear gas bombs. But the two-day long protest was against changing the diplomas from Latin to English; the real-world problems of civil rights and military involvement raged with nary a mention in the Yard. News of Freedom Rider arrests, fighting in Laos, and arms control was virtually ignored as the class concentrated on achieving an unprecedented number of honors degrees...
...real-world implications of this misguided intellectual dilettantism are unpleasant. It is questionable whether a politician whose rhetoric is so polarized and whose actions are so unprincipled will be able to deal realistically with the difficult yet manageable problem of crime. It is to be hoped that Koch's recently-intensified repressive attitudes will not result in equally repressive policy, as other New York Democrats uphold the state's prohibition on capital punishment...
...debate which preceeded the council's election of officers last Sunday night avoided real-world political questions such as divestment. The exchange between Offutt and his challenger, Dunster House Representative Melissa S. Lane '88, made for a student government election like any other, a sound-off between sound-alikes...
...Whatever real-world parallels the playwrights may have had in mind for this shrewd, calculatedly savage entrepreneur, Le Roux has a life of his own, and on the grand scale. In Anthony Hopkins' brilliant, buoyant realization, he is a comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly...