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...such grand ambitions, but he too seems resigned to a preordained role: "Gloucester-born, Gloucester-bred, in two or three days, Gloucester-dead," he declares wryly. The sense of place, of stillness and smallness, is reinforced by the set, skillfully designed by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn. Pond and Senn manage to create a two-bedroom house on the cramped Pudding stage, and yet maintain the spareness of a shoreline residence...
Still, the process of assimilation is inexorable. "As these students become Americanized, they want to eat hot dogs and hamburgers and pizza," says Mark Palermo, a teacher at Chicago's Senn High School. "They want designer jeans and bicycles and calculators and digital watches. We're taught maybe it's an error to be materialistic, but material things are what they want...
...known gnomes of Zurich were forced to forgo their normally reclusive ways. At endless town and village meetings, they argued that passage would seriously threaten Switzerland's position as the world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...
While reading The Crimson's series on Harvard's finals clubs, an interesting thought came to ming: If Jusse Jackson is elected President will the Porcellian Club give him a lour of the tip stars? Senn E. Judge...
...copies the word farming on a blackboard ?first in English, from left to right, and then in Assyrian, from right to left. A susurrus of Chinese rises from a history class. Soft Spanish vowels punctuate a science lesson. A model international academy? Hardly. It is Chicago's Nicholas Senn High School on the city's ethnically mixed North Side, where foreign-born students enroll in special bilingual programs that allow them to study a regular curriculum in their native languages as well as in English...