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...proposed replacing the present division of departments into three fields with a bipartite division, into the Humanities and the Sciences. The proposal elicited a general response of stark horror. Professors of English saw their discipline sliding into the morass of History; Government professors shuddered at their department's being torn asunder and deposited into both of the new areas...
...past year, Cuba has been torn by a power struggle between its old-guard, Moscow-lining Communists and the younger Fidelistas, whose hearts are closer to Peking. The Moscow old guard is clearly getting the worst of it. Between May and December last year, Castro sacked four Cabinet ministers who were aligned with the Soviet-oriented wing of the party. Last week he bumped the most important old-timer yet: Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, 51, director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) and top go-between for Havana and Moscow...
...cows still graze, the school consisted of two aging red brick dormitories, a tiny red cafeteria and a dilapidated classroom building called Dinkins Hall. "The floors were so bad you got splinters if you wore thin shoes," Owens recalls. There was another academic building, but it had to be torn down at once, says Owens, "for insurance reasons-but even more for esthetic reasons...
...model of the world, with the roof taken off and the streets torn up," is Author Stacton's description of a Spanish army bivouac into which a couple of his characters have strayed during the Thirty Years War. Stacton could also be describing his own novel abovit that war. In that camp, the civilians-stable boys, prostitutes, grooms, bakers, wine sellers, nurses, wives, peddlers, moneylenders, cardsharps, children, thieves, thugs, priests, a company of traveling actors-outnumber the soldiers by as much as eight to one, and the same wild and brutalized rabble roils through the pages of the book...
WHRB's Dudley Hall studios were torn down two years ago to make way for construction of Phase II of Holyoke Center. At that time, the station was given "temporary" quarters in Claverly Hall with the understanding that the University would provide new space for permanent studios...