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...every character in the play recalls a dozen others. Prospero, you learn, springs from a long line of irascible magicians. And Ferdinand, it appears, could have stepped out of Sidney's Arcadia. But even if you have dutifully read the appropriate criticism, unraveled the separate strands of Renaissance thought, gotten up the puns, you still won't resonate to everything in the play--or at least, not the first time--simply because you aren't Elizabethan...
Since World War II, says Thorwald, the problem of poisons has gotten dangerously out of hand. Hundreds of toxic agents are now available to millions as pesticides, cleansers, barbiturates and tranquilizers, and many cannot at present be detected in a cadaver. The mod ern world, in Thorwald's opinion, has become a poisoner's paradise in which do-it-yourself-death is on sale at the nearest supermarket-in the handy-dandy family size...
Leverett has proved to be too much for the other Houses over the past two seasons, amassing a total of 204 points while giving up only seven in 14 games. Things have gotten so bad Dudley House could not find 11 men willing to go on the field against the Bunnies last Wednesday...
...Mayor himself may also have gotten through to the casual bigots. By taking a strong, unmistakable stand for equal treatment for all individuals, and making it work, Cavanagh has shown some casual bigots that the consequences of liberal policies are not so terrifying after all. He is appealing to their casualness rather than to their bigotry, and apparently successfully. Detroit is no paradise for Negroes, but they get better treatment from police there than in other large cities and they have more and more opportunities to move into neighborhoods that are integrated--and seem likely to stay integrated. In contrast...
Dean Von Stade disclosed yesterday that a Saturday night party in Weld South, with "a lot of noise, a lot of drinking, and a lot of horsing around, had gotten out of hand." In a separate incident, he added, a teenage girl from Cambridge had passed out in the Yard, and was hospitalized at Stillman Infirmary overnight...