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Gregory is remarkable for sheer theatricality. His special gift is to alter the ratio of expectation between an audience and a work. In Endgame, he has taken an austere doomsday play and injected it with manic laughing...
...assumptions about student discipline which are antithetical to the current structure of the CRR. Students feel that the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is too "elastic" and therefore unjust; and while most have never seen, much less read, the Resolution, they are right that it could stand revision. The ratio of students and Faculty on the CRR, and voting guidelines for Committee decisions, are stumbling blocks for those who feel that students should be judged by their peers, or at least by a number of peers equal to the number of Faculty on the CRR. And, there is a considerable...
Ninety-three per cent of the women said they had not been well informed about the differences between the Yard and Radcliffe when they sent in their room preference forms. They suggested that the differences in sex ratio and physical setup be made clearer to incoming freshmen in the future...
Dull Work. In the other moods, though, his thoughts drift off-to one of his pet projects, perhaps, or to the South Seas. "Being in Tetiaroa gives me a sense of the one-to-one ratio of things," he says. "You have the coconut in the tree, the fish in the water, and if you want something to eat, you somehow have to get it." Brando still seems to need, as a friend once said, "to find something in life, something in himself, that is permanently true, and he needs to lay down his life for it." The pity...
...changes at Paris Match are more than skin deep. Since the first "new" issue hit the stands on Dec. 9 (and attracted an additional 200,000 buyers), the magazine has devoted more space to news and timely features; although the ratio of pictures to text is still fifty-fifty, the photographs seem chosen to complement rather than dominate accompanying stories. "We deal with hotter subjects now," says Photography Editor Jean Rigade. "B52 raids rather than National Geographic-type picture stories about the great rivers of the world. The beauty of the photos is less important than their content...