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Only the first half of the play deals with the fall of Aias; the second half is an Antigone-like dispute among several new characters over whether to bury a lawbreaker's corpse (shown as a mummy with a bloody sword in its chest). Favoring burial is the swashbuckling Teukros (Gintaras Valiulis); against burial are the petulant and imperious Menelaos (Elliot Thomson) and Agamemnon (Joe Song). All it seems to boil down to, though, is a contest among the three to strike the grandest pose, shout the loudest, and sneer the most...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Aias | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

President Reagan Requests Campus Burial Site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

President Reagan has requested that Stanford approve an on-campus burial site for him and his wife, The Stanford Daily reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

Tending Rumford's burial plot does not signal a long-standing University policy of granting amnesty to past Benedict Arnolds'. Instead, Harvard agreed to maintain the traitor's grave in perpetuity after he bequeathed to them an endowed chair in the physical and mathematical sciences...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

...million-member United Church of Christ last week became the first U.S. Christian body to authorize ritual recognition for divorce. Along with its Communion, marriage and burial forms, the U.C.C.'s revised Book of Worship (prepared mainly to drop male-biased language) includes a five-page "Order for Recognition of the End of a Marriage." In the new rite, conducted after a civil divorce, the minister announces that a husband and wife have decided to dissolve their marriage "after much effort, pain and anger," and the once married couple then recite words of regret and respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Putting It Asunder | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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