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...substitutes and retired teachers who, by law, must quit within 60 days or lose their pensions. Kansas City's director of school personnel, Robert Ward, says it takes about 50 telephone calls to find five substitutes when a regular teacher is sick-and on some days 150 are absent...
Mayer's Woyzeck is a veritable diamond in the rough: the set looks unfinished, the lighting is often unfortunately absent, the stage hands scramble conspicuously for the props during scene transitions, sometimes the actors don't seem aware that other actors are on stage with them. But it doesn't matter. When all is said and done, Woyzeck is an exciting and a fascinating show, one which transcends its technical handicaps easily. The best in it is Mayer's best and that's saying plenty...
...Absent Brother. There will be nothing inconspicuous about the event starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, when the National Shrine's 56-bell carillon thunders into a window-rattling medley of works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and a new composition by Dutch-born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused...
Baird's objections are obviously condescending toward the student who comes here during the summer, and although the "I go here during the winter" buttons show that this snobbism it is not entirely absent among the Harvard students themselves, the Faculty cannot afford to have this outlook if it is to make any significant contribution to these girls' educations...
Many others came to worship the priests and priestesses of their various religions. (The high priest and priestess, Bob Dylan and Joan Bezz, were noticeably absent...