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...play is vaguely set in Japan in about the 17th, 18th or 19th century. Dramatic purists might reject the entire work as being similarly vague, as too often cloaking murk in mystification. The action unfolds like a series of semi-related Japanese prints, some limpidly serene, others viscerally gory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Kdang! | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...this place just off Delaware's John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway. As far as roadside rest areas go, it wasn't any Howard Johnson's. Lacking the proper blandness, the place was creatively ugly. Most of it consisted of nothing but a central lobby, plastic glassy skylights, and a semi-cubistic chandelier. All in all, little more than a retarded version of Miami Beach. Except that off to one side of the lobby, roped off with velvet covered ropes, was a plaster bust of JFK painted to look bronze...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Memoirs of a Would-be Street lighter | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...minimum of 20 per cent of the skilled, semi-skilled, and general work force on all construction projects be composed of black and Third World workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro Calls Harvard Hiring Racist, Demands Reform by December 2 | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

...cent Black and Third World skilled, semi-skilled, and general laborers on all Harvard construction sites by December...

Author: By Shirley E. Wolman, | Title: SDS and Splinter Group of Afro To Hold Obstructive Sit-In Today | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

Under the helper program, unskilled or semi-skilled workers learn painter skills over a three year period, at the end of which they become journeymen. Harvard now employs 13 helpers, seven of them black, and 27 journeymen, three of them black. Helpers are paid from 43c to 86c less per hour than journeymen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Official Answers SDS on Painter Program | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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