Thursday, March 2, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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population," he said. "It's just not the land of opportunity, it's not terribly colorful."
HE SAID it was a myth that radio and television had a great effect on speech patterns. He said radio and TV provided only one-sided communication.
"You don't carry on a conversation with your radio or TV," he said.
"But 'wors' isn't necessarily wrong." Cook said. "We need to distinguish between what teachers should leave alone and what they should correct."
Education, however, in some respects,
has had effects on speech patterns. Cook
MOST CHILDREN who grow up in Kansas use the word "wash" for wash, according to Cook, but change to "wash" after attending school.
Cook said that because of the complexities of the state dialects, the expansion of the study and the amount of time the study was spent to eliminate when the study would be completed.
"KANAS IS always to be mixed up," he said. "With the dialect, it's an interesting thing on its own, but its harder to draw conclusions."
Examples of scattered clustering of speech patterns indicated by preliminary results.
- The term for fixtures attached to the edge of a roof to carry off rain water is generally "gutters" in the Kansas City area and in the central part of the state. But in other areas the northern areas "gutters" alternates with "eaves (s) troughs", with neither predominating.
There are occasional uses of the New England term "cavepouts" and the North Carolina term "screechy."
Although the Midland and Southern phrase "sick at the stomach" is the predominant one in Kansas, it is intermixed everywhere with the Northern "sick to the stomach." In the Kansas City area there is a fairly frequent use of "sick in the stomach."
Albert Cook
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Things are getting so expensive that even nothing can cost a lot. In fact, you can pay as much as $40.33 a month and get nothing in
With today's prices, even nothing costs
Following the lead of the Seattle Times, which recently published a "Cost of Nothing Index" for that city, a similar index has been calculated for Lawrence.
Partial sale likely for 2 power plants
“cot” and “caught” the same way, but those in the eastern part of the state say the two words differently.
KANAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) - Kansas City Power and Light Co. may sell part of its Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station and lease it to the Nebraska Public Power District.
Power district officials confirmed that negotiations on NPDP's proposed purchase of 17 per cent of the Wolf Creek plant, under construction near Burlington, had reached an advanced stage; however, discussion on a waiver was not unclear, according to district officials.
Residents of Lawrence pay the following minimum charges to the water department each month, even if they don't use any of the services. Water费, $2.38, and garbage collection, $3.50.
The Wolf Creek Plant is a joint venture of the National Kansas Gas and Electric of Wichita, KA.
The minimum charge for electricity is $2.40 and gas rates start at $3.00. The service charge for a private telephone line is $1.50, the service charge for a Trimline phone with a Touch-Tone dial.
"Comfort" is usually means "a tied quit." But in the north, southeast and south-central proxies of the state and in the country, the word "comforter" is used frequently.
Even an unused television set can be expensive for a cable television subscriber. Basic service costs $7,000 a month and Home Box Office is another $10.30.
Add up these costs and you can get a whole month of nothing for between $7.53 and $40.33, depending on the style of your home, how much you subscribe to cable service.
If you plan to leave town for an extended period of time, any of these services can be temporarily suspended, but most companies offer a gate for at least one month in order to do so.
The gas and water companies will stop service at no charge and cable television can be disconnected for two months and reconnected for $7.25.
Costumes enhance play's mood
Maxey's was found, nude and legless, near the railroad tracks at the north end of Connecticut Street February 7. The brothers were arrested later that day.
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Writer
Gardner pleaded guilty last summer to second degree murder in connection with the P-b. 7 death and mutilation of 46-year-old Margaret Maxey.
It took $400, six student volunteers, a seamstress and three weeks to make and rent the 28 costumes that bring "The Ecclesiastes" to Nightingale" by Tennessee Williams to life.
But the driving force behind the costumes of "Eccentricities," which plays at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the University Theatre is Chez Haehl, University Theatre costume designer. And he is pleased with the outcome.
"Eccentricitities" is a story of Alma Winnemiller's frustrating fight to escape from an unhappy existence in a small Southern town in 1916. Haell used his experiences travelling in the South for images in creating his designs.
"There's something bird-like about the Southern ladies. Williams uses this image. I tried to reproduce some of the eccentricities in the town streets through my costumes," Haeli said.
"ONLY A Southerner could have written this play," Haeli said. "I'm fond of the Southeast and have spent a number of summers visiting there. They say after the Civil War the South had nothing left but their eccentrics.
The Governor's office refused to say why cleremony had been denied or what Gardner's reasons had been for requesting cleremony.
"The mornings there are misty. It's not raining and it's not sunny. Everything is so damp that water drips off the leaves. It's like the clouds are hanging at ground level and they move through them. I worked for the motion feeling by using a lot of old, tired lace.
THE LACE motif also was used by the scene designer, Delbert Unirub, and by Jack Wright, the director, who likened Alma to a race which enhanced everything it touches.
"There's a feeling of age and tiredness in Southern towns. As you drive through you see big oak trees that have been there forever. They aren't young and growing and vital, but they aren't dead and worn out either," Haael said.
Costuming for "Eccentricities" not only helped establish a mood, but was also a key factor in deciding the specific year for the show's action.
Bennett denies clemency plea
WILLIAMS, in his state directions, dates the attack on ancient before World War I. Originally a prisoner of war.
But Haehl said fashion in 1910 were too long and severe for the themes in "Eccleston" and "The Kiss."
Gob. Robert F. Bennett earlier this week denied executive clemency to James Gardner, 19, Lawrence, who is currently serving a sentence of 30 years to life in the state reformatory at Hutchinson for the reader of a Lawrence woman in February 1977.
ultimately used, 1916, because skirts were shorter and more flowy by then.
Haakh said the play's costume designs fell into place one night in a meeting with
"We spent hours going over pictures trying to decide on Alma's color. Jack had to leave for a minute and when he came back, he was jumping and saying, 'I've got it.' He go with peaches and tans for Alma.' Gettin' Alma's color was the key to the show.
ALMA'S COSTUMES start out very light peach and get darker through the play. Her necklines go progressively lower. Haeli compared Alma to a peach: soft and pink on the outside but with a pit of frustration deep inside.
"We need to alma become stronger by the costumes she wears. She finally becomes so frustrated and so strong that she asks a man to take her to a hotel.
"You need to carefully read each character and talk with the actors about how they see themselves. You talk with the actors and try to make sure you make colors sure 'clause,' he said.
"I don't think she ever becomes a prostitute. She is simply so frustrated that sometimes a man makes an offer, and she it to relieve her frustrations." Haith call
Haehl researched the period carefully but his costumes are not strictly period fashions. He used the basic silhouette of the times and then added character touches.
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