Word: posing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Aili Singer)-who meet in a dress shop, relive their lives in several versions while attempting to choose the right dress (role), and end up, I guess, where a lot of us are now. Mary gives in, for a while at least, smiling and twisting as the men chant, "Pose, Smile. Change," again and again. Aili screams in despair...
Epps sees a period of serious trouble ahead for the University. Severe financial problems are "just around the corner" and Epps anticipates that political reaction from the Right will pose a major challenge to the University's right to govern itself. The government's reduction of money for pure research and its practice of keeping radicals under surveillance are very dangerous, says Epps, since the government is manipulating the fears of sectors of society. In the event of another major University crisis, Epps hopes that he will be involved in the student circles where decisions are being made; that...
...Zone" offers this forced convergence of "high" and "low" humor, which is too naturalistic to be absurd and too pregnant with symbolism to pose as farce. The "high" humor of the Devil as Angel finds expression in a scene in which an Old Man and an Old Woman solicit his aid in bringing their daughter back to life. The sarcastic expose of superstition is vitiated by a focus on the campy quaintness of the old couple and the vulgarity of their revivified daughter (Alaina Warren). The mixing of styles proves particularly annoying in Felder's early appearances as the Devil...
...precise role of the Russians was difficult to define. It seemed impossible that Moscow, which has advisers throughout the Syrian army, was unaware of Damascus' intention to invade. The Russians may not have known the extent of the thrust, however, Moscow made every public pose of trying to check the fighting. Yet some U.S. analysts speculated that the Russians might have been playing a clever double role: instructing their advisers with the Syrian army to let the tanks roll, but to appear as the peace saver by pulling them back if they failed. It was not necessarily that the Soviets...
Last year, our friends in Harvard '70 warned us, in no uncertain terms, that this last school year would pose some new and unsettling problems. We listened, we sympathized, we failed to understand. Only Monday, when the honest Mr. Fox stood up in Lowell Lec and told us, in effect, that there was nothing to say did we realize that there is, well, nothing to say and little...