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...some of the Audrey II songs, where the plant's vocals come through the speaker system, other cast members' vocals come from the stage and the band's music comes from the pit. Somewhere, the rhythm is out of sync. Fortunately, the off rhythms never diverge far enough to destroy any of the numbers. Generally, the sound effects and the music add effectively to the emotional impact of the script...
...members of the Harvard community, we hope the union will reevaluate its current stance. If a large percentage of the duespaying membership becomes disenfranchised, barred from the process, the union is threatening its own hopes for success. An effective way to destroy an organization is to cause dissension within, and it seems most unwise for an organization to do it to itself...
...that elected officials could debate rationally and sometimes act contrary to their constituents' wishes. Let's hope our new president, who has the most and best information to decide on programs like the Stealth, realizes the necessity to act in our best interest, even if such action would destroy a popular public fantasy...
...Cornell virus" infected the Arpanet network, which links 60,000 computer systems nationwide including those of the defense Department and research institutions, on November 2. Experts estimate that clean-up costs related to the program--which did not destroy any computer information--reached $2 million for down-time spent weeding the program out of the stalled systems...
Although he was a faithful letter writer, Cheever assumed that his pen pals would destroy his missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire...