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THE TWIG
THE
MEREVITH
NOVEMBER 14, 1974
TWIG
COLLEG-E
Merit Weekend offers
intellectual challenge
For those of you who complain about the less than stimulating
intellectual climate outside the classroom at Meredith, Merit
Weekend is an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.
Rufus Edmisten, North Carolina Attorney General-elect, will
deliver the keynote address focusing on the political aftermath of
Watergate, and members of the faculty and administration will
lead discussion groups in which students are welcome to par
ticipate.
Merit Weekend activities are an excellent chance to engage in
provocative debates, and discussion and to become more aware
of what is happening on the current scene. Hopefully, Meredith
students will set aside time to participate in this opportunity.
G.R.
^‘Applause^^ success has
a ‘^Broadway sheen^^
Meredith College should be proud of the fall musical AP
PLAUSE which ran three nights last week. The TWIG agrees with
“News and Observer” critic Bill Morrison in commending
Director Linda Bamford.
APPLAUSE is Mrs. Bamford’s third and most ad
venturesome musical. The music is rock and the lyrics and story
contemporary. It brings a welcome change from the Rogers-and-
Hammerstein-like rut in which Raleigh area drama seems to be
stuck.
APPLAUSE is the first Meredith production that Bill
Morrison has reviewed during Mrs. Bamford’s four-and-a-half
years here. For those of you who didn’t read Morrison’s Nov. 8
review he said, “there’s no faulting the enthusiastic, energy-
charged playing that carried the evening.” He continued with
what was probably his highest compliment in saying “the show
had a Broadway sheen that helped cover the lack of substance.”
Mwrison went on to explain that he thought the “lack of sub
stance” was not with the poTormances but with the musical it
self.
It is certainly impressive that the APPLAUSE cast and crew
could pull off a production well enough to draw praise from a
critic who doesn’t even like the musical.
For the Meredith people
who missed seeing AP
PLAUSE, the TWIG offers its
sincere sympathy. You missed
a superb effort by Mrs. Bam
ford, Music Director Mrs. Jane
Sullivan, Choreographer Beth
Leavel, and Set Designer
Marlene Hart and a talented
cast and hard-working crew.
G.R.
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Henry the Plumber: During
the first Nixon administration,
Henry Kissinger’s concern over
news “leaks” helped to
stimulate wiretaps on members
of his own National Security
Council staff. Press reports of
the wiretap campaign em
barrassed Kissinger so much
that he threatened to resign.
But the adverse publicity
apparently didn’t cure him. He
has now begun an intensive
effort to plug the leaks at the
State Dept.
Kissinger is outraged over
press reports - many of them
ours - about his Middle East
negotiations and his celebrated
“tilts” toward Turkey and
white Africa. A few weeks ago,
he restricted the distribution of
classified cables. The European
Affairs Bureau, for example,
used to get 30 copies of in
coming cables. They now get
six.
A team of top aides toured
the department and told lesser
bureaucrats they would hen
ceforth receive only those
telegrams that were directly
related to their particular jobs.
And they were warned not to
duplicate the few cables they
get.
In addition, the director
general of the Foreign Service
lectured his underlings on the
ethics” of their calling
“Malicious” news leaks, he told
them, maligned the “integrity”
of the Foreign Service. Those
who could not live with
Kissinger’s policies, he
suggested, should resign or take
leave without pay.”
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