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...perfunctory public statements. In the Medical Area, it has built a $200 million power plant with little regard for the environmental havoc it might cause in nearby residential areas, and fought desperately against efforts to make the plant's operation cleaner. Harvard acts as though it exists in a vacuum, and pays no attention to the repercussions of its actions in Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much beyond draping City Hall in purple bunting to mourn its problems; but if the day should come when it can act against the University--and it may be approaching...
View the works on exhibit at Greenwich Village's La Mama. Device No. 1-skeletonize the text. Back in 1961, Brook announced: "I do not believe in the word much today, because it has outlived its purpose." This induces a vacuum of thought and feeling. Sounds and body actions are rushed in to fill the gap. Oriental masks and non-Western rituals are added, and de-individuate the actor. Superbly accomplished as this international troupe is, each member of it seems to be computerized by Brook's guru visions and will...
Then, too, the White House wanted Muskie because he could do a job that Vance could not. Says one top Carter aide: "We wanted someone with a stronger inclination toward recognizing and using the press and presenting and explaining U.S. foreign policy. We had a vacuum there, where someone with Zbig's natural inclinations just moved right...
...departure of Professor Walzer leaves us with a vacuum in leadership," Richard M. Hunt, senior lecturer on Social Studies and a member of the concentration committee, said last week...
THESE FEW MOMENTS of stage magic point up the emotional barreness of the script. The songs--cynical, angry, haunting--exist in a vacuum, unsupported by any undercurrents in the production. Technically faultless as Jones' staging is, his deft exploitation of Happy End's humor exaggerates the banality of the plot...