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...power, the university was used to having the legislature approve between 96% and 98% of its budget requests. When the new Governor began tightening the budget and exerting regental control, U.C. was aghast, and in Reagan's view it reacted like a spoiled child. Given the public temper, Reagan has made the university look all the more childish -or so many Californians...
...general temper of the Council is against simple acquiescence with Dunlop's request. The fact is that we just do not understand the committee's function well enough to explain it to students considering running," Allen said...
...Newton. He had clearly studied the experience of colleagues-like U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harold R. Medina, who says: "With these disruptive people, the more you kick them around or the more you clear the court, the more unruly they become." Medina speaks from experience. By controlling his temper, he managed to maintain order while presiding over the potentially explosive 1949 trial of eleven Communists determined to disrupt the proceedings...
...Temper of the Times. The virus takes a toll that may make some playgoers blanch. There are three bloody beatings in which one boy has an eye gouged out and another is strung up dangling from the chapel cross. At play's end, one of the three teachers has been driven to his death...
...stress what Playwright Marasco does well: he writes with fluent literacy and he can create a strong part with a spine in it. He traps the temper of the times, the currents of rebellion and uneasiness that almost visibly pollute the daily air. His clerical teachers are paralyzed by the lack of the very authority that they ought to represent. One priest, Father Penny (David Rounds), provides comic relief by the scabrously funny asides he delivers on his own so-called vocation. But Marasco strains rather portentously to make his troubled school a metaphor for a sick .world, and fails...