Word: tampering
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Many signs are posted in Glacier National Park warning of the presence and danger of grizzly bears. Likewise, at Yellowstone National Park the visitor is warned by innumerable signs not to feed, pet or tamper with bears (mostly black bears). However, one tourist went so far as to try to place a child, piggyback, on a black bear for photographic purposes...
...supposed to be aware we're in a theater. But Mayer has put too many realistic props in his settings, and too many crossbars in his machinery. The first few of the ten-minute set chages are uproariously funny as everything topples into place. Composer Burg, also afraid to tamper with Brecht, accompanies each little comedy with imitation Kurt Weil orchestrations of imitation Kurt Weil melodies. But it's not that funny after a while and it blows to hell all hope of growing impact...
...future when HUAC arouses itself and starts Red-baiting the nation's students again. There is a sad chance that Harvard could become involved in a future HUAC imbroglio. Were Pusey to accept the committee's recommendations, he might be able to make HUAC finally realize that it cannot tamper with the academic freedom of campus student groups whenever it decides to appease the rightist fringe...
...cent next year, bumper stickers saying "Had Enough? Impeach Reagan" bloomed on the freeways. Good-humored as this reaction seems, its suddenness confirms that Reagan made a colossal miscalculation; Californians, even those who pushed him into office with a million-vote margin, never intended him to tamper with the state's tuition-free system of higher education...
...currency black markets around the world. The reason is that the market works too well. Furthermore, federal control over the stock market, designed mainly to keep it honest and informative, and aimed at maximizing the competitiveness of the market and the information of the customer, makes it hard to tamper...