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...totally the actor's fault. If Ah, Wilderness is to succeed it must do so because of a director who recognizes the play's defeets and works assiduously to surmount them. Thomas Grucnewald has not only overlooked the play's weaknesses, he has made them shine like a rotten mackerel. The whole produciton becomes a litany of praise for conventional values against the challenge of art and change as envisioned by a failed poet through three manhattans at a Grosse Point cocktail party. The conception of a production is the director's task and, if nostalgia is what Mr. Gruenewald...
...rest of the country would be a severe psychological blow to Lon Nol's government but would probably constitute a wise military move. As it is, says one Western military analyst, the Cambodian army's desperate holding action resembles "a skater gliding over a lake of rotten ice. No matter how fast he tries, the ice keeps breaking up, and pretty soon there is nowhere left to skate...
...saddled with the job of University President. Pusey is apparently unwilling to apply the statement he made about our industrial society toward understanding the reasoning of radicals. It does show, however, that he is caught in a bind between empathizing with those who think our society is indeed rotten, and thwarting the extremes of the radical movement. He has tried unsuccessfully to resolve the dilemma by yielding completely to the idea that free passage for everyone in the University community cannot for a moment be superceded by other issues. This, coupled with the belief that he can make no headway...
...buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...
...thinking about my quiet companion. When Tinsley got out of bed on whatever day it happened, did he think that he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...