Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...train ride to Suffolk Downs Race Track isn't much. You take the blue line out from Government Center and roll past the sleek silver cylinders nosing down at the Airport, the junk-covered beaches of Wood Island, and the abandoned playgrounds of Orient Heights...
...Downs you scurry along with two hundred other people to find a place on the Surrey, a miniature trackless train which ferries people back and forth between the track and the subway. You pay the $1.50 admission price unless you're a senior citizen, in which case it's only 75c), push the turnstile...
...variety of bands-which included Hot Dog Stand, Catfish Black. Adrien, and Sea Train-played throughout the afternoon...
...going to make this the best law school in the world," says Dean Sovern. "It is a magnificent pedagogical challenge to think about how you train people in 1970 for effective functioning in 1985, when no one has the foggiest notion of what the world is going to be like then." Of one thing Sovern is certain: "The idea that we should spend all our time in law school teaching people how to win instead of how to settle is very damaging in this day and age." As he sees it, law schools ought to be try ing much harder...
...totally different character from that of the traditional interpretations. Alan Abrams, as Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, was marvelous as the proud but corrupt political hack. But the undisputed star of the show was Josh Rubins, as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Following the opulent train of reverent courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried a headsman's axe several inches taller than he is. It was enough to bring down the house. His version of "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found" included some updated lines ( that...