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...primal, universal passion as soccer. During the World Cup, the matches of the national football teams impose television schedules on the rhythm of life. Last year I attended a dinner for leading members of the British establishment and distinguished guests from all over the world at the staid Spencer House in London. The hosts had the bad luck to have chosen the night of the match between England and Argentina--always a blood feud, compounded on this occasion by the memory of the Falklands crisis. The impeccable audience (or at least enough of it to influence the hosts) insisted that...
Brustein remembers fondly when Alfred recentlygave the Spencer Lecture at Harvard, an event thathonors a person for work in the theater...
...carnage at Littleton this week had resonance for the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego, Calif. Twenty years ago, Brenda Spencer was a teenager with a gun and a target: the elementary school across the road. Today she is serving the 20th year of a 25-years-to-life sentence and will be eligible for a parole hearing in 2001. TIME's Feb. 12, 1979, report...
...explanation was incredibly casual. "I don't like Mondays," Brenda Spencer, 16, told reporters by telephone as she held off San Diego police for six hours. But who was she trying to kill as she repeatedly fired a .22-cal. rifle at Cleveland Elementary School from her home across the street? "No one in particular. I kind of like the red and blue jackets." While Brenda chatted on the telephone, the terrified pupils and teachers huddled on the floor of the bullet-sprayed school. Principal Burton Wragg and Custodian Michael Suchar were both slain by the gunfire at the school...
Still, it is the rare student that claims the "jock" identity only. Don't be surprised to see a sculpture by a top swimmer, or a track star in an a cappella group. The newly-built Spencer Art Building is the home for many a budding artist, and a cappella is hugely popular: there are presently nine different groups. One of Williams' special offerings is Independent Music Project (IMP), which allows student composers to create and perform works for the community. Theater, too, can attract a good portion of the school. And just a few weeks ago, the location...