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...Smith to punctuate our healing with a question mark. Despite the good intentions of the cast and some genuine moments of radiant acting, The Death of Bessie Smith fails in its appointed role as wakeup call to the insidious prejudice which still permeates our society. The play may not accomplish precisely what the director has set out to do, but it certainly possesses a myriad of redeeming qualities...

Author: By Amy G. Piper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Colors Clash in Albee's 'Bessie' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...resilience. They hopethat The Death of Bessie Smith will not becordanted off into the traditional box of racialissues. However the interaction with audiencemembers quickly digressed into an actor's personalaccounts of racism and how his mother was affectedby them in her childhood. This works against whatthey are attempting to accomplish and proves asdoes the play that the opposite is true. We havemade progress since 1937, and more than condemningthe residual racism which exists today, theoutrages in this play underscore the achievementsthat the black and white communities have made inbecoming one. Perhaps what it does, despite someperformative weakness, is prove that...

Author: By Amy G. Piper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Colors Clash in Albee's 'Bessie' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...work still to accomplish, it isironic to see someone who has been repeatedlyslighted by Harvard--Wilson was virtually excludedfrom the Yard celebration last October--to rallyaround the Veritas...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Tour Shares, Learns Little in D.C. | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...think it was one of the top IOP events I've ever been to," said Black Students Association (BSA) Senior Representative Dana B. Bennett '99. "A lot of what he said spoke directly to what the BSA is trying to accomplish this year...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bond Addresses Racial Injustice | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...system." And although Japanese investors were hopeful, boosting the Nikkei by 1.42 percent Tuesday and bolstering the yen's value against the dollar, the Dow, which at midday languished 50 points in the red, indicated no such optimism. "Japan is a consensus society -- it takes a long time to accomplish anything," says Saporito. "Clinton and Obuchi can have all the summits they want, but the work to be done is in Japan, not New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit of the Walking Wounded | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

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