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...spare Dorothea, but she cannot, of course, hide it from the audience- thereby spiking any hope of dramatic surprise. The second act brings in the bad-news girl, Dorothea's fellow teacher Helena. Helena (Charlotte Moore) is an antiseptic snob with faintly lesbian leanings who wants Dorothea to abandon her tacky flat and move in with her. Formerly tempted, Dorothea now refuses. The poignance of the situation is that these are women alone, who at best are merely pooling their losses...
...been a point of speculation. Since last December, when he apparently rejected an offer to become president of Yale University, Rosovsky has puzzled observers interested in his plans for life after University Hall. Some sources speculated that Rosovsky turned down the reported Yale offer because he was unwilling to abandon his direction of Harvard's own reforms; others concluded that he was holding out for an offer from a less financially troubled school, perhaps even Harvard, if President Bok lives up to his previous pledge to spend less than ten years as president. Yet Rosovsky has never publicly commented...
...growing realization that new laws alone are not the answer: the social grievances that provide the breeding grounds for terrorists must also be assuaged. Above all, say government officials, it is essential for the state to keep public opinion on its side. Britain, for example, was forced to abandon its policy of internment in Northern Ireland because its violation of basic human rights alienated the population...
...Afghanistan, where a closet Communist regime seized power last month, as another Soviet success. And this is on China's own western flank. Peking is also thought to feel that Carter has been too eager to accommodate the Russians in the slow-moving SALT talks and to abandon or defer development of modern weapons such as the B-1 bomber and the neutron warhead...
...have known about a dozen white South Africans in the last six years. Their opinions have ranged from total acceptance of apartheid to revolutionary rejection, but all agreed on one point--the present regime will never willingly abandon apartheid or any institution necessary for its maintenance. In the six years I have followed this issue, the South African government has, on many occasions, publicly insisted that it will never abandon apartheid. How can we expect to change, by good examples and token adjustments, a society that claims it will go down fighting rather than willingly institute change? In light...