Word: counterclaims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noted that the town of Mashpee, Mass., has filed a counterclaim for $200 million as the cost of improvements. Who ever told the white man that a $100,000 house is an improvement over a do-it-yourself teepee? Is a six-lane paved highway with speeding autos an improvement over the dirt road between villages...
...Harvard Square Dance" number a transposed Harvard law school professor barks out legalistic calls to his dancing chorus to counterclaim left and counterman right, find a loophole, swing your silent partner, change a venue and make an allegation, waking the dancing drones of the cast for this one number. But the cast doesn't stay awake long, probably because they're tired of parading around a stage. Most of the songs serve as an excuse to bring out the full chorus, and few of the melodies sustain or deserve such a stampede...
Anyone who can successfully sift through the morass of claim and counterclaim which characterized this production will arrive at the confounding conclusion that there are no hard and fast answers in the graduate student controversy...
Myth No. 2: Americans are slaves to "gadgets." Revel's solemn counterclaim: "The truth is that there is no country in the world where automobiles, for example, are treated more like ordinary tools-or where people drive less like maniacs." Furthermore, making an assertion that will particularly outrage Europeans, he insists that "aesthetic" imagination is "more pronounced in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world...
...Claim and Counterclaim...