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...Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come from exports since its classic penny loafers became a hit in Europe...
...Helen Caldicott, one of the leaders of the anti-nuclear movement, appeared at the Quincy House Dining Hall earlier this spring, "she got a polite round of applause from some of the people there--half the people didn't even turn around to stop eating," says Steven R. Swartz...
John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College, says that a "change in consciousness has permeated social relations between men and women. People are more self-conscious about being alert to these issues." Swartz says that when he first came to Harvard. "I wasn't sensitive to or as knowledgeable about harassment." He says he first thought the specific cases were isolated incidents, and that he was surprised by the studies. In the fall, as news director of WHRB, he talked to the staff and told them "to be extra careful of how they treated the compers, that they were...
...conscious "translationese" of the turn of the century--even to the using the word "poesy" for "poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing the actors' motion and delivery to match the tone. This works in spots, but it cannot keep things moving for two and a half hours. The weight of verbiage is simply too great...
...until the end gets the payoff of a genuinely moving conclusion--the assurance that somewhere in the morass of stylization there was a story worth remembering. If the theatregoer is patient, not too sleepy, and willing to work, the evening is by no means a theatrical dead loss. Swartz and her company have coaxed a good deal out of this literary curiosity, perhaps as much as they possibly could have retrieved without drastic retranslation and even more drastic cutting. But one is disposed to frustration because such efforts and talent, applied elsewhere, would have achieved so much more...