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...budgets only increase 2 per cent, then total spending in real dollars will decrease dramatically. For a year, maybe two, inflation can be absorbed without paring services to the bone. "Everyone knows there is some fat in government," Sullivan says, but then he quotes State Sen. Barney Frank--"The problem is the fat is marbleized." But too many years of inflation and a continuing tax cap only spell disaster...
...budget cuts are only half the problem. To maintain services at anything resembling their present level and to pay a living wage to city workers who must negotiate new contracts this summer, the city will have to increase taxes "like they have never been increased before," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 said last week. In the School Department alone, the no-science, no-reading budget ("everything I've done in the last five years, I've undone in the last five days," superintendent William Lannon said when he presented the document) will still demand an additional...
EVEN THE BACKERS of the referendum acknowledge that it will mean significant budget cuts for cities like Cambridge. "The problem in Massachusetts is that they spend too much money." Hyatt said. "Is it right to force people who own property to pay for all the things the government wants?" he asks. "A lot of cities will have to get with it, and adopt better management techniques," he concludes. Sledd's message is much the same. "Our average income was dipping below the national average, which is kind of a horrendous idea for a modern industrial state like this...not some...
Toby faces a difficult acting problem. He should be charming enough to be loved by Monica but disquieting enough to terrify Baba. The Toby in this performance (Joseph Lee) strikes a compromise somewhere between charm and dumb-foundedness, coming off somewhat like a sad hound. Toby is less of a presence than he could be, making Monica's love look more like pity and Baba's fear only the fear of silence itself...
...internality of action in Terry Rex (much is thought, little happens) presents a dramatic dilemma for Leib, what might be called the problem of the inactive character. Talk, even when it is not "soap talk," is still talk, and begins, after a while, to beg for action. But Leib prefaces Terry Rex with the performance of Terry Won't Talk. This play, after all, is the product of Terry's mind, and serves to mirror that mind, highlighting in dumbshow the roiling preoccupations which, although related to Terry's burden of the past, more directly prevent him from writing...