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...late leftist publisher Vic tor Gollancz subsidized The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell's classic report on wretched British mining conditions. It turned out to be a hot coal indeed. In a pusillanimous preface, Gollancz deplored Orwell's "general dislike of Russia" and added with evident shock: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters...
...America are symbolized for him in more ways than David Frost's schizophrenia. Theater is much more a way of life in England. This manifests itself also in a great increase in regional theaters throughout England. "I wouldn't mind going back to the stage myself." Bristol's Old Vic has established a theater called the Young Vic. "It's packed every night. It's a kind of Shakespearean theater-in-the-round, where everyone can come. And they do. In America it's different. An evening at the theater is a major investment. It's so expensive here. First...
...statement, the steering committee declared. "The Graduate Students Union has not received any response from Dean Jones to the union's four demands presented last week. Dean Dunlop's 'Dear Vic' letter, released this morning, is misleading, unclear and inadequate," adding that "in neither form or content is it a response to the union's demands...
Higgins's biggest competitor is Jacques Plante, the former Montreal goalie who invented the mask. In a game with the New York Rangers a Vic Hadfield slapshot caught Plante in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. When he returned to the ice to finish the game, he was wearing a mask, much to the disgust of coach "Toe" Blake and the rest of the Montreal players...
...SIGNIFICANCE of the Harvard Cabaret's inaugural lies in its proposal to go beyond this weekend and this month to become a permanent center for live entertainment. Producers Vic Budnick, a first-year student at the Law School who did drama work as an undergraduate at Yale, and Al Franken '73--the man behind Nixon!--are looking for material and talent to carry the Cabaret through its initial Spring season. Next weekend will have a musical retrospective with piano and clarinet on the work of Cole Porter. Between shows there will be music and, if a way is found...