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Joseph is also inconsistent in his treatment of children. In the first act, right after an upward-looking soliloquy that treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...
Fortunately, Vic Niederhoffer, Doug Walter, and Lou Williams kept hitting hard and pushing upward to fill in the holes. With Sullivan back at number two, and Wiegand at five, four of the top five players were refugees from the tennis court. Compare that with Yale's first five, four of them Marion Cricket Club graduates...
...cries of "Track!" ''Attention!'' "Pista!" and "Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from swish chalets to high-wayless motels; ski tows and chair lifts whir upward through clearings in the fir trees, queues of skiers wait patiently in the valleys to take dizzying trips to the peaks, only to dash back down to do it all over again...
...Upward Spiral. Their case involved two extraordinary apartheid measures: South Africa's Immorality Act, which forbids sexual relations between people of different colors, and a second law, which prohibits mixed marriages. As a deterrent, the Immorality Act has worked none too well over the years. In the past decade, about 4,000 mixed unmarried couples have been convicted. Victims need not be caught in the act; they can be jailed if discovered in suspicious circumstances. Last summer John Rudd, 34, a prominent Johannesburg businessman, was arrested in his home with Dottie Tiyo, a dark-skinned 21-year-old professional...
...published the Digest's first original article-a study of the effect of music on workaday efficiency-and the dike was breached. From then on, the number of original contributions to the Digest-a fair share of them "planted" first in other magazines-crept steadily upward. Today, they constitute 70% of every issue...