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...best aspects of it for me was that I worked not just as an actor, which is what I've ended up, but a director, a designer, I directed a dance prove in Leveret House. I directed two operas [The Marriage of Finger in Leveret House and The Begger's Opens in Address Houses]. I worked with dancers from the Boston Conservatory and designers from the design school, and architecture students, because I had many other interests besides acting. When I came to Harvard, I was much more interested in painting than in acting, in fact And I've gone...
...attempt to reconcile her present values with the ethical tenets of her youth. Spurred by her own daughter's probing questions today, Nelly is driven to explain how it is possible for people to ignore evil, to photograph a murder rather than stop it, to walk past a starving begger, eyes carefully averted. The questions are never answered--there are no answers--but out of the explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf...
Across the street at Adams House there will be yet another production of Night's Dream. So far it is the only Shakespeare-without-orchestra scheduled for the spring. However, because the play is being produced by the people who presented Begger's Opera last year, the play will surely be embellished with jugglers, tumblers, and cavorting imps...
...Threepenny Opera. A fine pedigree, extanding from John Gey's 18th Century original. The Begger's Opera, to its adaptation by Bertoit Brecht and Kurt Weill in the twenties, comes through the excellent Leverett House production unbesmirched. The Old Library Theatre sees a bit of the ultra-violence as the Knife spills the opera's good Mend freely. Here comes a big, but there goes the neighborhood...
...this was disillusioning to the school's creator, Kansas-born Henry Earl Diffenderfer, 41, now Director of Education for the U.S. Civil Administration on Okinawa. Diffenderfer has toiled so hard to raise funds for the university that he is called Kojeki Ryu Dai Kagu Zeidan (begger for the University of the Ryukyus). Pressured by disenchanted donors (including a U.S. Marine outfit), Diffenderfer drafted an angry letter to University President Genshu Asato. The school's foundation is withholding all funds, said the letter, until "you can honestly assure us that anti-American and pro-Communist personnel of your student...