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...students continued to demand an alternate, the Coop relented and decided to offer a McMillan Ward outfit in addition to Cottrell and Leonard's. Ironically, the alternate manufacturer is, like Cottrell and Leonard, non-unionized...
...Huey chopper, piloted by National Guard Captain Harold Ward, went up the south fork of the Toutle, which had turned into a caramel ribbon, toward the peak, still shrouded in clouds of steam and ash. The mocha-colored terrain appeared otherworldly, a madly undulating landscape. The trees looked as if they had been strewn across the foothills by a careless child. As we passed over Baker Camp, a logging base, we spotted a pickup truck, a dead child lying face upward in the back. Ward swung the Huey over a huge mudhole that had once been Spirit Lake, a body...
...CHARACTERS in this Inspector General huddle together onstage, shoulders hunched and arms poised as if to ward off some painful blow that could fall anytime, anywhere. Director Peter Sellars deploys Gogol's gallery of human grotesques under black bumbershoots--protection not from rain but from the details of daily life that intrude on their passivity. They seem to be fighting a desperately comical rearguard action against nasty, brutish human nature, and losing...
Albert would be a solipsistically in ward character, mildly insufferable, if it were not for the extraordinary grace and intelligence of Rogin's prose, which some times accomplishes small, splendid feats of magic. At one point he warns the reader: "What follows is tender and complicated." Exactly...
...then took classes in New for a year, then took classes in New York with a healer. He almost made a pilgrimage to India, but instead trekked across North America visiting healing centers in places like Vancouver, Canada, and Berkeley, Calif. He worked for a while in the psychedelic ward of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, helping people deal with bad trips and good. Back in Boston, he studied macrobiotics and the "Fourth Way of Healing"--a method derived from the esoteric teachings of the mystic Gurdjieff--as well as Silva Mind Control. In between Hollingsworth also slipped in four...