Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only flat on the stage. The singing was good; the show's high point definitely came when the cast, clad as a group of marauding "hippies," ventured, dancing, into the audience, singing a song ("Let the Sunshine In") from Hair. All week long in Mather House, you couldn't sit by the windows because the show had taken up the space in front of them to use as wings; the back of the dining room was cluttered with lighting stands. The producer informed me that the show was originally supposed to be performed outside, like Two Gentlemen of Verona last...
...director of the video program, says the experience of seeing oneself on videotape for the first time can be traumatic--people look older and fatter and their voices sound funny. Krupnick, who has been largely responsible for developing the center's video techniques, has learned not to let someone sit alone while watching a tape of himself. "It's like standing and looking at yourself in the mirror for an hour. It's very distracting. It is helpful to be able to turn around to someone and ask a question or try to sort out your thoughts...
...Stanford Committee on Responsible Investment Policy, the student group that organized the sit-in as well as a noon protest rally, also held a forum last night to discuss the South African issue and possible actions to convince the university to push for complete corporate withdrawal from South Africa...
...will continued to protest. It does not please me to see sit-ins; it does not please me that Derek Bok suffers all the grief for a decision that is not his alone; it especially does not please me to think that violence, in any shape or form, sometimes accompanies protest. And when President Bok could not enter Massachusetts Hall on April 24, when he was chased into the Square by shouting students, and when students attempted to block his car as he tried to flee from the scene...then I am very much distressed...
Most of the Navy's battle for more ships will be fought behind the closed doors of congressional committees, on which sit passionate Navy supporters. Florida Democrat Charles Bennett, chairman of the seapower subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, has proclaimed that the shipbuilding program "ought to be about 20% more." Charles Mathias, the Maryland Republican who wields considerable influence on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has declared: "I intend to ensure that this country has a strong Navy in the 1980s and beyond...