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...heard in academe. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, now, improbably, a conservative born-again Christian, was drowned out by several hundred screaming protesters when he tried to speak at the University of Wisconsin. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani began a talk at Kansas State University. A roar of protest erupted from the back of the auditorium. The hall had to be cleared for 80 minutes...
...watch than Philadelphia's Julius Erving, who continually sur prises spectators and defenses with moves no one (including him self) is possibly anticipate. One might argue that Erving is consistently amazing, but the reason he so grasps a crowd's imagination, the reason thousands of people roar whenever Erving sim ply lays a hand on the ball, is that the man seems the epitome of the unpredictable, the thoroughly free and spontaneous soul...
...each time attempting to connect such events with what they consider appropriate tunes and formation of letters. The results have been an almost uninterrupted series of flops. People listen a little, fail to recognize or connect the tunes, get bored, and start up conversations in the stands. A subdued roar is the collective result. Gradually this increases until at the end of the show one can scarcely hear the announcer and literally no one is paying the band the slightest attention. This is, I believe, an accurate description of the Yale game halftime this year. The only relief was provided...
...music and the artistic photography of the serene landscape around a chain gang skillfully sets up a calm before-the-storm feeling. When the storm breaks, it is furious and violent, raging up from the streets around Nolte the cop. The camera often returns to the streets, recording the roar of the traffic from the level of the cars, as if refueling for the coming scenes...
Neither Reagan's "user's fee" nor O'Neill's foredoomed big-spending plan is likely to do much, however, to reduce the current 10.4% jobless rate. Congressional rumblings to "do something" about unemployment will surely grow, very possibly to a roar, when the more Democratic 98th Congress convenes in January. Last week's moves on the issue may mean that the White House has seen the political future and begun to make its plans accordingly...