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...corporation will probably refer the SASC's resolution to the Advisory Committee on Social Responsibility, possibly with an immediate rejection of any stock sale, Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, an SASC member who drafted the proposal, said yesterday...
...strikers were fired, and others were sent off to work in other mining areas or on collective farms elsewhere in Rumania. Meanwhile, special militia detachments-called "butchers" by the miners-sealed off the Jiul basin area, and security police agents were infiltrated among the miners. The dissidents refer to them as "party dogs...
...microphone rods into his face and asked the most impertinent questions, hoping to elicit an off-guard response. This is a drumhead trial, and few of those who are subjected to such a process escape unscathed. A print reporter who finds a rumor to be unfounded usually does not refer to it in print; but a television reporter's unverified insinuation, heard on-camera, lingers in the audience's ear. The scene recalls the notorious "ratissage," or rat hunt, of the French army in Algeria, in which captured guerrillas had to run a gauntlet of soldiers wielding rifle...
...does not presume to answer that question. His job, which he has performed with unobtrusive competence, was to provide concise background, explanations and deletions in accordance with British libel laws and his own sense of decency. Waugh himself was responsible for the most notable omission, the Oxford entries that refer to his undergraduate adventures in homosexuality. There are no diaries to cover his cuckolding and the collapse of his first marriage in 1929. For his hallucinations in 1954, one must refer back to Gilbert Pinfold...
...Mondrian and Van Doesburg. The bright shuttles of color-red, blue, yellow, white and black, without tints or complementaries or tones-in works like Mondrian's Color Composition A, 1917, or Van Does-burg's majestic but unbuilt design of 1923 for a university hall-refer to no ideology of the state. The aim of such work is to clean the mind and purge emotion; to construct a paradise of fundamental shape. Instead of the "handwriting" of brush marks, the clear flat surface; instead rf the knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene...