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...MADISON, Wise--The university of Wisconsin has nation the hockey attendance every year since 1970 with crowds that would fill Bright Center nearly three times over at almost even game But it's just numbers the number that make the Wisconsin faithful special...

Author: By Michael Kass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson pucksters To Face Wisconsin | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

...some solution that was going to be great.and the leading candidate was Marxism-Leninism. Stalin was an aberration, yet understand. We don't want to fall into the same trap; leftists coming of age in this era should only be looking for something better.in so doing we would he wise so discount Sontag's motion that communism is a monolith, pretty much the same wherever it rears its unchained head. As she herself eloquently proves, North Vietnamese communism circa 1968 is not the same as North Vietnamese communism criea 1980; certainly out of hand condemnations of the Sandinistas --increasingly...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reminder, Not Revelation | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

...nightly with the Boston Ballet in his own production of Don Quixote. Although watching him is still a thrill, his technical shortcomings are especially conspicuous in the role of Basilio. This romantic lead requires a more blithe, more innocently carefree personality than comes naturally to Rudolf Nureyev the world-wise and world-weary. Nureyev's cockiness and arrogance overpower principal dancer Marie-Christine Mouis (who alternates the role of Kitri-Dulcinea with Laura Young): in his arms, she seems nervous, skittish, more than a trifle unsure of her suitor's affections...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: A Competent Quixote | 3/19/1982 | See Source »

...charm of the play is its elusiveness of view-point. If it seems at times to mock the absurdities of love--Matt exclaims of a wall the fathers built between the lovers' houses, "they built it ages ago... last month"--in the end, it reaffirms a sort of worldly-wise romanticism. In one of the funniest numbers of the play, El Gallo shows Luisa the splendors of the world, and gives her a mask to wear whenever a fire or assault mars the picture. Such sarcastic images continually surface whenever the play's world-view seems a little too rosy...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Parodying Romance | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...stronger one's real position, the less one needs to rub in the other side's discomfiture. It is rarely wise to inflame a set-back with an insult. An important aspect of the art of diplomacy consists of doing what is necessary without producing extraneous motives for retaliation, leaving open the option of later cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RANDOM REFLECTIONS | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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