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...have accumulated more laureates than the 18 that England has amassed in almost 300 years. In a calendar sent to friends and constituents, Matsunaga has written, "If the lessons of human experience were all written in verse, we might better learn and remember them." One metrical piece of advice: "Abandon what's foreign/ After Penn Warren...
Aside from several key scenes where the actor's back is to the audience, space is used well. The actors toss themselves (and other objects) across the stage with abandon, fully expressing the play's physicality. Felman and Rubin both overcome their age handicap, warming to their parts by the second act so that we really believe that George is "fortyish but looks 55" and Martha, six years older than that...
However, it is fallacious to argue that to promote understanding of evil one must print it--with wild abandon. Unadulterated depiction of petty hypocrisies and disregard for people in exchange for images is not the purpose of a newspaper in all its efforts, feeble and not so feeble, to unearth evil. And in arguing that we should print evil to expose evil we buy into a false dichotomy about the way we view The Crimson and its goals--either we spew mindless, evil propaganda or we ignore evil altogether and try to play to only the pure, clean interests...
...Abandoning "feminism" makes it too easy to abandon what the word stands for. If we grow afraid to stand up for women's rights for fear of being branded "feminist," we endanger those rights themselves. In 1986, a referendum will be held in Massachusetts to outlaw abortions if the Roe v. Wade decision falls, and to cut government funding for abortions for poor women. The revolution is not over--if it was a revolution...
...football players blundering to the defense of Molly. At the end, Molly agrees to give up her job in order to avoid the risk of losing custody of her children. Of course, the team is dismayed and so disappointed to see their beloved coach give in so easily and abandon them...