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...which 30 boys, aged six to twelve, are stranded on a desert island without any adults. They elect a leader, explore the island, go fishing, and things move along at a Disneying pace for a while-until gradually the veneer of civilization begins to peel away and the boys revert to barbarism. All the boy actors in the cast are nonprofessional; they will be on Vieques Island until mid-August, and Director Brook's No. 1 problem is to prevent off-camera the occurrence of what he is trying to re-create on film. The boys who live...
...hopelessly dislocating the industrial and commercial life of the city. The probable French area contains 74% of the country's industries, does 77% of its business, and produces 70% of its agricultural crops. Almost brutally, De Gaulle forecast what partition would do to Moslem Algeria: "It will revert to what it was in 1830, that is to say, anarchy and chaos...
Volpe mentioned the "limitations" that the original grantors had placed on the land, limitations cited earlier by Charles W. Eliot II '20, professor of City and Regional Planning. When the townspeople originally set the land aside as a common, they stipulated that it revert to original ownership if used for any but the public weal...
...revert once again to the program notes, "Jacques Bersani and T. Morris rendered into almost modern French, pretty much metrical" the original version of the play, and very elegant and amusing almost metrical modern French it is. They kept the octosyllabic line, the often complicated rhyme scheme, and, most important, the delightfully naive ironies and anachorisms of the original. And even I, who barely understood French 20 lectures, could make out nearly every line. The lines that I didn't understand all came in a few tire-some and unnecessary scenes, full of argot about crap shooting and in-group...
Converts thronged to Father Miller by the hundreds and, requiring a meeting place, arranged with a builder, Tom Ford, to construct a tabernacle for them on condition that it revert to Ford after the end of the world, scheduled for April 25. The appointed day passed and, after a week or two during which they starved, surrounded by grotesque pictures of monsters from the Book of Revelation, the frenzied worshippers staggered out. Miller, somewhat abashed by the failure of his prediction, reviewed his calculations and discovered that he had erred by several thousand years. Meanwhile, Ford had laid claim...