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...court revels from 1605 onwards, Jones revolutionized English stage techniques, importing the Italian proscenium arch and exiling the simple "wooden O" of Shakespeare's stage for three centuries. From Florence, he adapted stage sets that consisted of serried ranks of flats painted in perspective, with a distant vista on the backdrop, "the whole worke shooting downewards," as Jonson said, "which caught the eye afarre off with a wandring beauty...
Earlier this month, James Cox, regional director of VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), announced in Austin that two of Laredo's 20 VISTA volunteers have been dismissed for "immaturity and irresponsiblity." Neither Cox nor his field representative, William Hale, would give any further explanation. Neal Birnbaum and Douglass Ruhe, both from Chicago and both 22 years old, believe they were released because of their associations with a Mexican-American activist group called VIDA (Voices in Democratic Action...
According to Birnbaum and Ruhe, Hale had said they could help VIDA in its efforts to organize restaurant and cafeteria workers in the Laredo area, but warned that the work "would involve certain risks." In other words, they were given to understand that, as representatives of the poverty program, VISTA volunteers should avoid too intimate an association with a group such as VIDA, which has militant overtones and which, therefore, is basically unfriendly to the Laredo powers-that...
...between central government and regions, between Emperor and officialdom or ambitious war lords-and, above all, the sometimes intolerable inner tensions of trying to maintain harmony. As China Scholar Etienne Balazs put it: "The smiling landscape is found to be a veil which, when torn asunder, reveals a craggy vista of precipices and extinct volcanoes, reminiscent of the visions with which most Chinese landscape painters were obsessed...
...year Special Assistant on Consumer Affairs, replacing Mrs. Esther Peterson, who returns to full-time duties as Assistant Secretary of Labor. Betty got interested in politics while doing commercials at national conventions, stumped a bit for L.B.J. in 1964, lately has been recruiting for Project Head Start and VISTA. Becoming the consumer's guardian angel is "going to be very largely on-the-job training as far as I am concerned," she admitted, as she started doing her own grocery shopping for the first time in 15 years. Then she wryly reported her research to a women...