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...human nature like a beggar come in from the cold of the inarticulate actual world. And if something as grand as life once went beggaring to Shakespeare, then it's hardly surprising that so many playwrights and actors have also looked to him for inspiration. John Guare and Mel Shapiro found that the Two Gentlemen of Verona were still around in 1971, only they happened to be a black and Puerto Rican, just as West Side Story had flushed Romeo and Juliet out of Manhattan slums a decade earlier. Shakespeare's influence barely surfaces until the end of West Side...
...roots of society. "Why has this school [the Nairobe School] not failed its children? Because its teachers must successfully teach in order to keep their jobs...in many public schools, teacher attitudes keep on blocking the door." In a chapter called "Visiting Professor From the Real World," Dr. Eliot Shapiro, the elected community superintendent of a district in Harlem, hints at a different kind of "accountability" in education...
...million loss for the period, caused largely by winter natural-gas shortages and transportation difficulties. Chemical company earnings were down, despite rising sales. Union Carbide was off 20%, to $81.5 million. Du Pont, the largest producer, registered earnings of $121 million, 12% below a year earlier. Chairman Irving S. Shapiro said depressed prices of synthetic fibers hurt...
...grand jury indicted two leaders of the sect, Angus Murphy and Harold Conley, for "unlawful imprisonment" of Merylee, on the theory that she had lost her free will due to Hare Krishna "mind control." For good measure, the two leaders were also accused of brainwashing another convert, Ed Shapiro, 22, and of getting him to try to extort a $20,000 family trust fund from his father. Young Shapiro had once been worked on by Ted Patrick, the originator of deprogramming, but had also escaped by feigning agreement. "The thing that frightens me," Schwed told the New York Times...
Harry Chapin will be at the Brandeis University Shapiro Gym on March 27 at 8 pm. Dave Mason, etc. on Saturday at 8 at BC's Roberts Center. These college dates don't get enough exposure, at 5.6, 1/125, especially...