Word: awards
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These days Sondheim has disappointingly little competition. For the past two years--since Sunday in the Park--the New York Drama Critics Circle has not deemed any musical worthy of an award. Next season promises a resurgence, with perhaps the brightest glimmer on the horizon Sondheim's own Into the Woods, devised with his Sunday in the Park partner, James Lapine. Its premise is that the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale figures all take place on the same day in the same forest, practically within bumping distance. The show...
...addition, senior administrators should not make unilateral decisions that affect us all as was the case with the Meese medal, when Allison ignored a faculty committee already set up to award the medals, and with the CUE guide, when Dean K. Whitla overruled the student editors...
Jernigan has also won three intercollegiate individual championships. Perhaps most impressive, he's won the Ivy League Player of the Year award--the squash equivalent of football's Heisman Trophy--no less than four times...
...early October 1985, the seven-man governing Corporation broke with tradition and chose not to award honorary degrees, Harvard's highest honor, at the 350th as they had at the 300th and the 250th anniversary celebrations...
...polite backout backfired. The local and national media reported Harvard's decision not to award degrees as a direct blow to the President, a classic case study in Harvard Hates America--coverage which surely did not escape the attention of the White House's public relations department...