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...guise of free speech, to debate something that most of them--like the 600 protesters outside Becton Hall at Yale last week--know already; the non-relativity of racism. The only thing different from Princeton, Indiana or Nebraska was that the Yale hosts concocted even more of a sham...
...higher Venezuelan price. In a typical case, $6 residual oil, used to fire utility boilers, was resold at $ 17 and later soared to $23 and $24 during the embargo crisis. Another apparent pattern: passing oil through as many as half a dozen middlemen, some of them nonexistent "sham corporations "-with the price going up each time...
...awesome assertion of a man with an uncompromising attachment to his heroic and romantic fustian. Rather than concede that his "higher love" for Raina is just or that his battlefield maneuvers are empty-headed, the idealist Sergius breaks down and crows cynically that the world is a hollow sham and life a farce. As Sergius, Timothy Cunningham and his perpetual scowl of a face execute the finest performance in the Loeb production. Cunningham brings to the role a pair of eyes that the properties manager could only have obtained from a ping-pong table, and as the part is laden...
...Leader Alvaro Cunhal, who is the most rigidly Marxist boss in Western Europe. The further lurch to the left increased fears that Portugal would eventually become a Communist dictatorship. In Washington, Kissinger spoke of "an evolution in which there is a danger that the democratic process may become a sham, and in which parties are getting into a dominant position whose interests we would not have thought were necessarily friendly...
...location and the nature of their work from other clerical and technical workers here, their request to be allowed to have their own bargaining unit should be granted. Harvard's attempts to change an administrative structure to stop such a union should be recognized as no more than a sham...