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Forward Lane Kenworthy tallied first for the Crimson, blasting a shot into the lower right corner of the net after a pass from teammate Glenn Brack went off the foot of a Penn defender...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Booters Top Penn, 4-1 | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...game was never in doubt," Lanzillo said. Thirty-three second into the match Glen Brack hit a chip 25 yards into the penalty area, where Harvard scoring leader John Catliff chested the ball down and drilled it into the twines. UMass hadn't even touched the ball...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Booters Smother UMass, 2-0 | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...actors who give the production any shape, in fact, are the ones who move beyond their lines to create characters in 3-D. Sven Krogius brings a bizarre array of mannerisms to the pivotal Judge Brack, the only personality stronger than Hedda's, and the only one who can wrest the plot out of her control. Tall and gaunt, Krogius speaks in a sneering whine and lopes through the generally imaginative blocking with enthusiasm. His malevolence becomes the production's dominant force, which unbalances things but at least raises the excitement level...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Power Shortage | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...play comes closer to achieving dramatic balance with the arrival of Eric Jacobson as the equally pivotal character Eilert Lovborg--the pawn to contrast with Brack and Hedda's manipulations, the hidden genius whose character weaknesses lock him into the same dead-ended bitterness as the rest...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Power Shortage | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

Jacobson as Lovborg is not only convincing but heartrending, with a meek bearing masking an inner, doomed nobility of character. What keeps him and Brack from salvaging the play is the same lack of ambition that hampers the other actors. This time, though, the lack comes in the production staff itself. High-schoolish, thrown-together props repeatedly puncture the illusion, starting with the opening complaint of a maiden aunt (Barbara Nathan). "There's no more space here for these flowers," she laments, looking around at the polished, unoccupied tabletops of the Quincy JCR. "So many people have sent flowers already...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Power Shortage | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

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