Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arrow Press was founded 22 years ago by James Barondess, then a student in the house. At that time presses printing from handset type were being cast off by newspapers, and type foundries were closing. Barondess went around the country buying up type and collecting the materials needed to start a press. Since then, it has been running quietly--almost secretly--in this basement under the care of one of the Adams House tutors...
...Uncommon Women and Others revolves around the lives of seven seniors and one freshman at Mt. Holyoke College in 1972, examining their experiences both in college and at a reunion six years later. While only a few of these women consider themselves "uncommon" in reference to societal expectations, they all have conflicting ideas about the changing times in which they live and about the adults that they are becoming. Their afternoons are full of tea and brandy, while their evenings are full of more risqu behavior: applying to law school or sneaking out to have sex. The play...
...same, unfortunately, cannot be said for Moonchildren. Set during the '66-'67 school year, the play revolves around the lives of seven college hippies--five men and two women--living communally in an apartment in New York. The issue of the day is the Vietnam War, and the men are terrified of being drafted after they graduate. That is to say, one of them mentions that inclination once near the beginning of the play. Weller's idea of developing this theme consist of having his protagonist Bob (Jay Chaffin '01) summoned for a medical exam, act like he is dead...
...wish I could say that the actors did as best they could with the undeveloped material they were given. Unfortunately, they seemed to exacerbate the situation. Joe Nuccio '01 as Mike yells and jumps around so much that even potentially funny speeches become annoying. His chauvinist roommate Dick (Josh Glassman '02), who is written as suddenly developing feelings near the end of the play, comes across as static as Mike is irritatng. In general, Glassman seems to have a poor grasp of his character. Dick seems more like a modern Middlebury student wearing tie-die over his J. Crew than...
...recent renovations to the Memorial Hall tower are evidence of the fact that the University is spending all around us," said council Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01, who hopes the proposed term bill increase will boost student group treasuries. "Unfortunately, all around us isn't good enough...