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...designers Dave Overcamp and Monbill Fung make excellent use of Agassiz Theatre, managing to squeeze the crowded Brewster household into a relatively small stage. Costume designer Alice Ristroph captures the Victorian essence of Abby and Martha with their high-necked formal dresses and long gloves; the sudden emergence of the aunts in lacey funeral attire even draws a hearty laugh from the audience...
Warsh puts economic history into a larger context of culture and ideas. In one essay, he links the Marxist theory of "Punctuates equilibrium" in economic evolution and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould's hotly-debated theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolutionary biology...
With his troupe of 11 dancers, Jones held a lecture and demonstration at the Agassiz last Wednesday. During the hour and a half of dance and discussion, Jones and company brought out issues of race, sexuality and identity politics both physically and verbally. Despite the controversial subject matter, their obvious sense of humor kept the tone light and the discussion friendly...
Recently, the increasing number of pleas for human respect for flora and fauna have drawn on deep emotions and the moral imperative of conservation efforts. But until now, Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen lay Gould has remained peripheral to the conservation fray, scoffing at what he calls the " shibboleths of the movement" and the "Catharsis" of any description of ecological deterioration...
...Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Association last night put on a song-and-dance show, "Ghungroo," before a sold-out crowd at the Agassiz Theatre...