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...junior college to a co-equal university campus. What must be added is that Normandy's alert board of education recognized an opportunity when the Bellerive Country Club offered its soon-to-be-vacated property at a moderate price to the school district. An appreciative group of parents sprang into action to pass a bond issue and necessary tax to purchase the property, and an enterprising group of local public school administrators converted an opportunity into reality by establishing a two-year college, which became the St. Louis Campus of Missouri. And all of this without even as much...
Moving out of the mountains and across the la Drang River, 500 troops walked through prickly elephant grass into a Communist ambush. From three sides, Viet Minh hardhats rained mortar, rocket and small-arms fire on the troops. Shouting "G.I. son of a bitch!," they sprang from behind hedgerows and trees, giant anthills and bushes to take on the Americans in savage hand-to-hand fighting. The cavalrymen hollered right back, "Come on, Charlie, come and get it!" The Reds, their flanks raked by strafing fire and napalm, finally retreated...
...excommunication and exile from society. The words of Paul VI and his bishops to Presidents and Premiers bear no such threat; but neither did those of the Apostles to Roman procurators. Thus the more the church returns in spirit to the unfettered simplicity of the Gospel from which it sprang, the more likely it is that its voice will be heeded again by the world...
...Country Wife, by William Wycherley. Charles II's England shared the obsession of its king-it was sex-mad. From that consuming passion sprang the witty, monomaniacally bawdy drama known as Restoration comedy. If Congreve was the age's greatest theatrical wit, Wycherley (1640-1715) may well have been its most vigorous social chronicler. He was a rake who later reformed, with all the zealotry that implies. In him, the pagan warred with the Puritan, the scandalizer with the sermonizer, and perhaps never more fiercely than in his most durable play, The Country Wife...
...Bellini; Bruhn is like Schwarzkopf singing Mozart." But Bruhn has learned something about characterization from his friend Nureyev. As Don Jose in Roland Petit's version of Carmen, Bruhn was a man possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked with despair. Eyes afire, nostrils flaring, he sprang about the shadowy stage with the fierce grace of a panther. But later in the week, in the pas de deux from Petipa's sprightly Don Quixote, he reverted to the cool precision of his classical discipline. His high, floating leaps were unstrained, his spins whippet-quick, his every...