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When Victus and his comrades decide to extend their Communist campaign to uncharted territory, they typically select a remote group of villages that have received little largesse from the central government. The first step is to dispatch an advance team to live in the home of a local family. Unlike government soldiers, whose own legacy to the village may be a trail of stolen chickens or worse offenses, the guerrillas try to behave courteously, listen sympathetically and pay their way. A nun or priest often adds a reassuring presence. They begin by organizing teach-ins and drawing out the villagers...
...Pudding Theatricals is not a political organization, and, outwardly at least, may not have to take responsibility for the politics of the artists it chooses to honor. But one would expect the group to be responsible as human beings. And if the person they select to honor, like Stallone, preaches a liturgy of violence, they ought to realize that his presence will attract some attention from concerned citizens...
...College decided to revolutionize the freshman housing lottery when it decided in December to reveal lottery numbers to the anxious Yardlings before they must select their upperclass houses...
Taken on its own terms, however, Drood is vivacious, funny and richly tuneful, and it has an irresistible gimmick: the song and dance comes to a halt in mid-syllable to mark where Dickens' novel breaks off. The audience then votes to select the murderer and therefore the ending. This do-it- yourself detection has been honed since last summer's tryout by Director Wilford Leach and Choreographer Graciela Daniele, the team that made a zonked- out Pirates of Penzance a 1981 Broadway triumph. Fully half of Holmes' songs are instantly hummable, notably the sweet Perfect Strangers and the plucky...
...Council in October heard a number of suggested reforms from students who observed the committee's proceedings last spring and into this fall and from professors who sat on the body. Some of these suggestions included allowing press coverage of the traditionally closed proceedings, asking the Undergraduate Council to select student delegates (now the responsibility of house committees) and requiring the CRR to meet yearly to review its procedures...