Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Choreography by Patricia Birch...
Director Sellars and set designer Gary Lovesky have created a visually breathtaking production--they dragged 30 live birch trees from the Harvard Forest and ringed them around the spare, vast, white-draped stage. Huge birches and the bare exposed Loeb stage dwarf the actors and frame Sellar's epic interpretation. The Loeb production emphasizes the tableaux over the characters, but it does so with a brilliance in staging that brings out Chekhov's geometry and starkly, pictorially dramatizes the characters' relationship to each other. The operatic staging also serves to divorce the characters from the world outside the Prozorov mansion...
Other features of the production include the 30 genuine birch trees which line the stage courtesy of the Harvard Forest, Roy Kogan's performance of Chopin pieces to accompany the show, and the costumes--there won't be any; actors will wear their street clothes...
THREE YEARS AGO, when Birch Bayh, Morris Udall, Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson, and a host of other Democrats tramped through snowy New England in search of elusive primary votes, the Harvard Democratic Club worked harder than a toy salesman at Christmas. This year, the lack of a national campaign has caused its members to turn on each other, and now all involved agree that the results have been just short of disastrous...
Presumably, the majority next year could refuse to take ads from all those political candidates it does not endorse, as well as ads from the John Birch Society, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party and numerous other exponents of unpopular philosophies. Having decided--contrary to all established principles of journalistic ethics--that sale of advertising space is tantamount to endorsement, it still might have a little difficulty separating the claims of free speech from those which are, supposedly, incorrect in their views. We hope that it might reconsider its stand in the near future, before reality intrudes--because these situations...