Word: checking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caius is a French physician in the play whose accents, mannerisms and character are constantly ridiculed, and whose energy is one of the play's driving comic forces. He had a habit, selon Terry Hands, the director, of kissing those he presumed to be his friends on both checks. The trouble was that all his friends were Englishmen, or normal height, and he was about 4'10". Hence to reach each check he had to hop, and his helloes and good-byes became increasingly more hilarious sight gags...
...varsity has been working on some new plays for its offense, and may use a press against the freshmen for part of the game to find out how effective it is under game conditions. "We want to check on how our helping defense is going to work against them." said Harrison...
...they tried to march on the South Vietnamese embassy. One chant along the way: "Two, four, six, eight/Organize and smash the state!" When District police blocked their path, the kids threw bottles and rocks. The police replied with tear gas. With one or two exceptions, they held nightsticks in check; the cops acted, in fact, with cool competence. The retreating kids retaliated by breaking store windows, stoning cars and burning a police motorcycle. Ten policeman were injured and 26 youths arrested in the skirmish, which lasted for nearly four hours...
...impossible to ignore. Two years ago, when Bly won the National Book Award for his second volume. The Light Around the Body. he abandoned the speech which had been submitted for approval, and gave another, castigating the government, New York literati. and several other victims; then presented the check awarded him to a member of the Resistance. all before an audience of the most prestigious publishers and poets in America...
...also hope the CRIMSON will check future labor stories with people directly involved in the labor movement, rather than relying only on student sources...