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...most important industries, the devastation caused by university expansion has been extensive. Mather House is built on the rubble of three-deckers that Harvard began to purchase and rent out to its professors and students during the ten year period before the wrecking ball destroyed the hollowed out shell of the McCarty and Banks Street Neighborhood...
...that all? "You think I'm motivated by a love of real estate?" Queen Eleanor demands. All this verbal carnage must have deeper roots. Like light glinting off the edge of a steel knife, appearances in The Lion in Winter are blinding. The viciousness and deceit, the shell of anger and the hollowness of despair are masks the royal family wear to cloak the more profound hurt of rejection. If they cannot have love, Henry, Eleanor and their three squabbling sons will have hatred--not merely hatred, but complete and utter decimation of their victims and tormentors...
YOUNG'S LINE of reasoning seems logical enough, and the possibility that his vision might become partially realized appears clear from recent dealings between Augistino Neto's militant nationalist regime in Angola and the Shell Oil Company. But at the same time it overlooks the long, unfortunate history of multinationals policy in Third World colonial countries. To take Young's extreme proposal: large businesses have never trained natives to be top-level managers. Their strategy as a whole has been not to set up complete and independent operations in individual Third World countries but to engage whole populations in mass...
...Shattuck's soaring soprano can overcome the determined opposition of the cymbals--especially since their frequencies are very close. Part of the problem is the thick-textured score, with its constant cacophony and acoustical fireworks; part of the trouble is the structure of Agassiz, which lacks a pit or shell to muffle the orchestra. Still, director Leslie Koenig and musical director Ken Getz should have worked out some compromise so that the audience could hear the lyrics as well as the music...
Such charges stir hurricanes of protest on the rigs. Says Pat Byler, production foreman at Shell's Vermilion Block 22 field, six miles off Louisiana: "My blood pressure goes up when I hear them talk about withholding." Nonetheless, gasmen privately concede that investigators from Washington will uncover a few examples of withholding...