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...Leverett House Arts Society is billing this Doctor Faustus as "a unique adaptation." Nevertheless, Morphos has shown almost too much fidelity to Marlowe's text; while she has shortened the ending, she retains all the original Latin--hardly a boon for a contemporary audience. The uniqueness of this adaptation lies, if anywhere, in the staging, which is unusually inventive. Even here, however, Morphos has made some mistakes; for example, she divides the chorus part among several speakers, each spotlighted in turn, thereby sacrificing Marlowe's poetry to theatricality...
Granting of limited service to the Concorde SST [Jan. 19] would be akin to planting a small bomb in Times Square to see if its effect were boon or bane...
...Concorde may prove to be an environmental mistake and an economic disaster. But it may also prove to be relatively harmless and convenient, and a first step toward a new era in flight. The best way to decide whether it is a boon or a bane is to grant the Franco-British request for limited service...
...some groups are better off, so are some departments; in fact, at least one has found the poor economic situation a definite boon. "Economics is a super field right now," says Karl Case, a last year economics graduate student. "Enrollments are up; everyone is taking economics courses because the economy is so bad. It's gone from 360 to 560 concentrators at Harvard alone." In economics, too, the now favorable academic job market is complemented by the availability of good opportunities for economics Ph.D.'s in government and industry--a situation that traditionally has not existed in the humanities...
...advantage for the East that will result from the new ruling is that travel expenses to Omaha for the eight regional champions will be paid from a pool of all receipts from the playoffs. Since the West perennially outdraws the East, this should prove to be a financial boon to the Eastern winners, Spry said...