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KENNETH D. SCHROEDER...
Peanuts cocktail napkins lie forgotten in pantry drawers, and Beethoven's face glares up from abandoned Schroeder sweatshirts in musty Goodwill Stores. Charlie Brown calendars are replaced on bedroom walls by Sierra Club gloss, or Playboy Mag. glamour. "Snoopy and the Red Baron" is by now a tarnished golden oldie...
...Schroeder (Forbes James Candlish) is another member whose gestures along could make his part. Candlish memorized the finger movements for his scenes of musical virtuosity, and backed by the actual music of the show's combo, he blithely wraps himself in a cloak of Beethoven or Socrates to ward off Lucy's (Jackie Levy's) stubborn attacks. It's hard not to wince at the thought of what little Lucy will be like when she grows up. The strident beginnings of a first-class shrew increase her "crabbiness" ("it's undemocratic if I can't be Queen") to a screeching...
...experiment soon led to a bit of unseemly partisan politicking. At one concert at U.C.L.A., members of a local "Schroeder Society" demonstrated for Beethoven, while lads and lasses in Mahler T shirts joined the good-natured battle by passing out "Vote for Gustav" leaflets. When the dust had settled, Mahler was the victor-by a single vote. Analysts pointed out that Beethoven might have triumphed had not his supporters split their vote among the four symphonies...
Thus 15 months of repeated, detailed inquiry ended with only a pious wish. Robert White, president of Kent State, found Mitchell's decision acceptable. In Lorain, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder, parents of one of the dead students, said bitterly: "Until now, we have had faith in our system of government." The four sets of parents also issued a joint statement. The decision not to convene a federal grand jury, they said, "is nearly as great a shock as that which came to us when our children were killed...