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...actors themselves, by "force if necessary; jail does not frighten me." With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent of government control. Besides, why are you so shocked? You knew what my politics were before you contracted...
...these "Brave New Harvard" concepts seem to exist, among other members of the staff, at least, not as realistic alternatives, but as the grotesque projections of certain alarming trends in present-day admissions procedure: the tendency to equate preparation with ability, to rely too heavily on College Board scores and Predicted Rank Lists, and to ignore certain geographic and economic areas of American life. It is not sheer numbers which worries them, but who is applying and whether or not Harvard should take...
...present-day terms, the story tells of a Massachusetts state senator, a Republican of rather low I.Q., whose son has driven him into debt from frequenting Lincoln Downs too often. In order to weasel out of his debts, the father (performed with virtuosity by Daniel Garrison, complete with belches and burps) enrolls after hours at a fly-by-night school in Boston, in the hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead...
...another six hours, gets his points of grammar and sentence structure across during heated, free-style debates about the state of the world. An English class of 18-year-old boys last week began reading about poverty in 18th century England, then wandered off into an argument about present-day economic and social conditions in Red China and the U.S. To a U.S. partisan who overstated the material abundance of America, Hamlett said gently that "Yes, there are poor people in Los Angeles, too." Moroccans are much concerned with race prejudice in the U.S., listen intently to Hamlett...
Committee Democrats squirmed at Slichter's blunt insistence that the main cause of present-day creeping inflation is labor-union pressure for wage increases. Republicans winced at his equally blunt plea for a $3 billion deficit in the fiscal year ahead to stimulate the economy and shrink unemployment. Trying to be helpful, Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss said he was sure that Slichter did not really favor a deficit "as such." Retorted Slichter, touching off a burst of laughter: "I think...