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YOUNG COMRADE, the central figure of the play, is acted by each of the four leaders in turn, each donning a blue wool cap to indicate the role. Thus Young Comrade could have been male or female, heavy or thin; the role remains an abstraction, undiluted by personality. Seen from a distance, in multiple portrayals, heroes disappear and abstract characters take their place...
...Steel Wool for Measles
...legal crackdown on fake term papers [March 27] is like fighting measles by using steel wool to scrub off the belmishes. The basic contradiction this business thrives upon is that students are required to write term papers of no use or interest to them. "Publish or pelish" on the professoriaal level becomes "compose or fail" on the student level. This term paper requirement, so irrelevant to real needs of most students, is just one more example of how the educational system is geared to academic, bureaucratic and corporate instuitions and not be the needs of the students...
...particularly striking example of the omnipresent hoard called the press was the Muskie tour of the Manchester shoe factory. The smiling Maine Senator, dressed in his gray wool body-fitting suit, weaved his way through huge barricades of incomplete shoes to shake hands with the factory workers. The press, about 50 of them, invaded the building chasing Muskie down aisles, questioning workers about their opinions, and cutting off the campaign team to get local-color pictures of Muskie with the workers...
After the Norman conquest, Winchester maintained its historical distinction. William the Conqueror sat in state at the Winchester Castle every Easter. As the first center of the wool trade, the city gained in commercial importance. Early 12th century marked the apex of its prosperity, but as London eclipsed Winchester as a legislative and commercial focus, the city's political and industrial stature declined. Still, in 1971, Winchester is a lovely city of 30,000 inhabitants, and one of England's most historical and oldest Cathedral cities. As such, it is ideal for a comprehensive archeological study of urban advancement...