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Twelve Dreams, oddly, might also have been titled Chornicle of a Death Foretold. The play, set in New England in 1936, focuses on a young girl named Emma (Mischa Barton), who presents her psychiatrist father (Harry Groener) with a book of her puzzling dreams. Finding their interpretation intractable, he consults a renowned professor (Jan Rubes), who suggests that the dreams "foretell the demise of the dreamer." Though all the characters are fictional, the plot springs from a case study of Carl Jung's; the psychologist found corroboration for his theory of the "collective unconscious" in a 10-year-old whose...
...gardens and exotic ones, for status plants and designer landscapes -- converge to boost the catalog business. The largest seed company, Burpee, alone sent out 6 million catalogs this year, up 20% from last year. Novices can buy a book, Gardening by Mail, just to help them shop. Author Barbara Barton guesses that there are between 1,200 and 1,500 catalogs covering just seeds, plants, bulbs, trees and shrubs, plus an additional 1,000 garden-related catalogs with everything from ornaments and greenhouse kits to clothes and tools...
...hope that all members of the PBHA and Harvard communities express their concerns to FAS and that Harvard will take this opportunity to support public service not just in words, but in deeds. Ali S. A. Asani '77 Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Valerie Barton '86 PBHA President 1986 Robert Coles '50 Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Eric D. Dawson '96 PBHA Vice-President 1995 Francis H. Duehay '55 Cambridge City Councillor Andrew J. Ehrilich '96 PBHA Treasurer 1995 Henry Fernandez '89 PBHA Board of Directors 1988 Robert J. Kiely '60 Loker Professor...
Part bawdy comedy, part dark elegy, part mystery, August Wilson's rich new play, Seven Guitars, nicely eludes categorization. It begins with a prologue in which a group of friends are mourning the death of Floyd Barton, a blues guitarist and singer whose career was on the verge of taking off. The action that follows is a flashback leading up to Floyd's death. But though full and strong in its buildup, the play loses its potency as it reaches its climax. Floyd's death may be plausible, even inevitable, but it becomes tangled in a confusing thicket of mysticism...
Playwright August Wilson -- who wrote The Piano Lesson and Fences -- begins his new play with a scene in which a group of friends are mourning the death of Floyd Barton, a blues guitarist and singer whose career was about to take off when he died. The rest of the play, about Barton's rocky life, is "enormously promising and filled with colorful sketches of dialogue and very appealing characters" says TIME critic Bill Tynan. As the end of the play approaches, however, both the "plotting and the ideas get muddy, so it isn't as moving as it should...