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Chillingly Sexless. The play also is vivified by the extraordinary performance in the title role of Alvin Epstein, one of the Yale Repertory directors. He hates. His eyes glitter with refrigerated rage at everyone, including himself. In an elegant, Hamletesque black doublet, his body is rigid with a tension that can never find release-even in the contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl...
...Left caucus. WSA, led by the well-organized and elite Progressive Labor Party (PL), viewed the New Left caucus's rather diffuse ideology- which centered on support for most all wars of national liberation- with scorn. For its part, the New Left caucus generally felt that WSA's rigid Marxism-organizing for a workers revolution- was inapplicable to present condition. Even during the height of the 1969 strike, salvoes worthy of the worst moments of the old Left flew back and forth between the caucuses. Analyzing April, 1969, for example, the PL newspaper Challenge concluded Harvard radicals had been...
...Finally, if we tried to maintain departmental representation in the face of reduced numbers, we would be forced to develop and abide by distastefully rigid admissions criteria. An engineer, a physicist, an actor, or a percussionist would have to be selected with far greater predictability than is now our desire or practice. Undergraduate admissions would become as the graduate schools necessarily are, a departmental phnomenon...
Nixon opposes controls as interference with a free market. Burns takes a less rigid position. In congressional testimony, he said "the markets do a better job" of allocating credit. "The fundamental answer to the housing problem...
...research associate, born of a Missouri farm family named Eshelman, grew up within the rigid sexual taboos of the back country. "I was never told about menstruation or anything," she says. "There was a very rigid rejection of anything sexual. You didn't talk about it." Her 1950 marriage to a musician ended in divorce six years and two children later. Says she: "Musicians are night people and babies are day people, and I couldn't handle it all." She met Masters in 1956 when job-hunting in St. Louis. He was looking for a female research associate...