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...Carden, as Huck, had to carry virtually the entire first act himself and the weight of that assignment showed. He has some fine turns, like his mimed escape from Pap's cabin, and he possesses a crazy abandon when it comes to attempting just about any kind of physical stunt. But. in an effort to pace himself for the long haul to the intermission, Carden's voice settled for the unexciting middle road. One just doesn't expect to discover such a subdued Huck Finn...
...said it would be easy. But we, as students, should recognize that we have been singularly lazy in our opposition to the war. The North Vietnamese have criticized the American anti-war movement for being too easily discouraged. We abandon tactics when they do not bring immediate success. We search vainly for something new and dramatic with which to end the war. We fail to persevere, and we fail to struggle. And our failure is reflected in the continued destruction of three Asian societies. It would be fatuous, and discouraging, to think of this spring as the beginning...
...Hess called on all radical groups, left and right, to abandon sectarianism-"the elite drive to rule"-and unite in opposing American state power. Hess said this power is "responsible for the systematic annihilation of the Vietnamese people...
Mass punishments for Friday's disruption would be unjust, inhumane, and unwise. The University cannot, no matter how repressive it is willing to become, protect itself from the damage which the war is doing to American society. If the University is truly concerned with free speech, it should rather abandon its posture of moral neutrality, rid itself of complicity in the war effort, and devote its energies to ending a war that will destroy it as surely as it destroyed last Friday's teach...
North Vietnamese gunners widened their shelling attacks on U.S. bases in South Vietnam's northern sector yesterday, forcing helicopters to abandon the forward combat base at Khe Sanh during periods of intensive fire...