Word: allison
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Heller cannot be blamed for the script's shortcomings, but her staging decisions accentuate the play's negative qualities. Producing Chicago in the Leverett House Old Library is a serious mistake. Although Heller and choreographer Allison McDonnel cleverly incorporate Leverett's stairwells into the action, the choice of venue leaves almost no room for the 18 actors. Chairs for the audience and the four-piece band swallow the majority of the available stage space; the side aisles should have been opened to provide the dancers with an outlet for movement. As is, the concentration of bodies results in our hearing...
...Kennedy School panel discussion, Graham Allison and Shirley Williams did indeed harshly criticize Western governments' stinginess in helping newly-democratic Central and Eastern Europe (and rightly so, I believe). But your paraphrase of Mr. Dienstbier's message as a plea to the West to "send more economic aid" is entirely misleading. Czechoslovaks do not want us to pay for their transition; they want to rebuild their country themselves, and they deserve enormous credit for this commitment...
Shirley Williams, service professor of electoral politics at the Kennedy School and Graham T. Allison '62, former dean of the Kennedy School of Government, both criticized Western efforts to help former communist countries, saying that more aid is needed so that the new democratic governments can survive. Allison predicted "a very hard winter" for these new governments...
...early Apple computer. Through re-created scenes and videos, the exhibition tries to capture the mood of each period during the information age, which has repeatedly confounded both the hopes and fears of society. "Our goal was to display technology as a human enterprise," says curator David Allison, "subject to all the foibles and failures of people...
...Allison and his fellow curators have wisely refrained from predicting the future, focusing instead on the discoveries that have brought humanity to its present juncture. Perhaps, though, one of the many schoolchildren visiting the exhibit will look with fresh eyes at its displays and have the flash of intuition that holds the key to the next technological revolution...