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...urging; when urged at all, their response has been quick and all that could be expected. If this year's freshmen want their class to stand for anything at all in the college life, they must earn the respect of the college. They will certainly never do this sol long as they give their class teams such miserable support. Ninety-five must send a good number of supporters to New Haven with her eleven. More men should sign the book at once...
...Turkish officials identified the conspirators as members of Dev Sol, a leftist group responsible for killing an American near the Incirlik air base, outside Adana, during the allied bombing campaign against Iraq. According to the daily Milliyet, the group was planning to assassinate Bush in Ankara with a remote-controlled bomb that was to be planted either in Ataturk's Mausoleum, which he visited, or in a parked car that would explode as the President's limousine left the mausoleum. Maps found by police suggested that explosives were also to have been placed under the lids of sewage drains...
Robert Mapplethorpe's boys-in-bondage photographs made the right wing snort and paw the ground. But the left has its own kind of puritanism lately, which submits depictions of the human body to a test of political correctness. A 1964 work by Sol LeWitt failed the test of Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian's NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART in Washington. LeWitt's piece -- part of a touring show of work inspired by the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- is a long black box with 10 portholes. A viewer passing from one to the next sees successive shots...
...night, agitations grow and Ben becomes more and more indecisive until, like Hamlet, he begins having conversations with his late father. Fortunately, they are witty exchanges by two convincing characters. Then again, in The Best Revenge (Random House; 240 pages; $20) everyone is convincing. Along with Tennessee Williams, novelist Sol Stein was a member of the Playwrights Unit at the Actors Studio. His portrait of backstage back stabbing is as uncomfortable as it is amusing, but Stein obviously knows what he is writhing about...
...influence of special-interest groups, prominently feminists and minorities. They are saluted, and placated, to the point where judgment is often skewed, and where tin-eared or casually invented words and terms are given approval simply because they are fashionable. "We tried our best," says executive editor Sol Steinmetz in justification, "to infuse some social significance into the language along the lines of what sociolinguists...