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...these important points keep getting drowned in the filler. The chapter of citizen action to promote a freeze is interrupted with "here is a list of the 33 states in which senate elections will be held in November, 1982. "Famous" "witnesses for a nuclear freeze" spout repetitive platitudes throughout a 38-page appendix. The impact of a description of a nuclear holocaust is blunted by 28 pages of number-laden tables that include such vital facts as the number of casualties that Ashtabula, Ohio will endure in a nuclear attack...
Whenever non-Eastern region squads spout mind-boggling statistics, the low quality of their competition must be remembered. At last year's seven-team National Invitational Tournament, Eastern champion Cortland State took first-place honors with an easy 5-1 triumph over UCLA in the finals...
...were about 20 men...all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces wholly burned, their eyes sockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks...their mouths were swollen, pus-covered wounds, which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of a teapot...
...also unsettling. Epstein has managed to underscore the class tensions in the play without turning it into a Marxist dialectic, and wherever Beaumarchais' introduces a didactic speech. Epstein finds ways for his characters to deliver it naturally. Each character, in turn--except the Count--gets to spout off about his oppression; and those who believe women's issues are a 20th-century invention will note that Marceline (Barbara Orson), who starts the play as Figaro's nemesis, offers a sympathetic monologue that we can only call feminist...
...interest is truly laughable. It would be simple enough to avoid a conflict of interest for ACSR members by publicizing the sale only after it was completed. He knows this as well as anybody, and I feel rather sorry for him for being the one who has to spout the administration line on this. Not only Larry Stevens' dignity but the cause of "reasoned debate" which Derek Bok champions so loudly would be much better served if Harvard admitted the real reasons behind its fear of public divestiture. Peter Sacks...