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...What is to become of this monument? Edwin Booth said an actor was "a sculptor in snow." The gifted company of "The Coast of Utopia" sculpted a grand and intimate panorama of 19th century Europe from the marble of Stoppard's teeming brain. Tonight at 11, the sculpture begins to melt. It may be frozen - a living frieze - in the memories of those who saw the piece assembled, five nights a week and three times on Saturday. It is can be admired in its one official preserved form, on paper, and surely the plays read wonderfully in their published form...
...anything but depressing. Dale’s face is young and bright, but his eyes are the eyes of decade upon decade of Harvard football history. As is his voice. Between his voice and his grandfather’s, a Charles Arthur Dale has been present in the booth for each of those championships and further back into the program’s illustrious history...
Chad grew up with Harvard football. He was a spotter for the team as a child. His cousin, David Anderson, joins him in the booth today and thinks about the similarities between the only two regular PA announcers Harvard football has known...
Jewish students have no less of a stake in the matter. Across the country, they have suffered a number of ugly incidents due to their religion and their stance on Israel. At the University of Colorado there were reports of swastikas painted at a booth set up by a Jewish student organization. At the University of California Berkeley, a brick was thrown through a glass door at the Jewish Hillel center. Such actions are intolerable...
Shiga's most recent book, "Fleep" (Sparkplug Comic Books; 44 pp.; $5), mixes his love of puzzles with the more straightforward kind of story. A man wakes up inside a phone booth encased in concrete. With no memory of how he got there and slowly losing oxygen, he utilizes scientific principles and the contents of his pockets to discover where he is and how he got there. "By my calculations, the rate of torsion on my pendulum indicates my latitude to be roughly 37 degrees - 49 degrees North," is a typical insight. One setback after another must be overcome with...