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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, "The Tree of Life" uses nothing but metaphoric gesture: expressive intent informs each movement. The work is simply structured One group of dancers works as a unit into which three characters--"the shaman," "the first horse," and "the mother"--emerge and recede. The section motifs, derived from imporivsation directed by guest choreographer Aileen Passloff, are simple as well: huddling in a mass, journeying in a chain of linked arms, imitating birds and horses and animal-demons. Yet the logic of how one section plays off against the next is puzzling. What sort of beings are these--ancient creatures, spirits...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lubovitch at the Loeb, Soll, and New England Dinosaur | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

Quinn said this year's bargaining unit is inappropriate and posed a major obstacle to the local's campaign. He said the inclusion of a large number of employees with more divergent interests made a union victory less likely...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Beth Israel Workers Vote Down Union, But Results Encourage Local Organizer | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

However Dr. Mitchell Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, said yesterday the larger voting unit includes many employees who had not had previous contact with the union, and so were more likely to vote in favor of the union...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Beth Israel Workers Vote Down Union, But Results Encourage Local Organizer | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

Nurses have been treated like ignorant, irresponsible, second-class "Step 'n' Fetch Its" by doctors and the public long enough. I'd like to see how others would feel after being in charge of an intensive-care unit for eight hours and being totally responsible for those critically ill patients' lives, with no doctors around 90% of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Earlier this month the unions were stunned to discover that apparently they did not. A cost of living increase of 1 % that was due failed to show up in 1977's first paychecks. The local unit of the Newspaper Guild, which represents some 65 of the affected workers, called a quick meeting and won permission from the guild's Baltimore-Washington chapter to hold a strike vote last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meany the Meanie | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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