Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will the new technology be regulated? What does the sudden ability to make genetic stencils of ourselves say about the concept of individuality? Do the ants and bees and Maoist Chinese have it right? Is a species simply an uberorganism, a collection of multicellular parts to be die-cast as needed? Or is there something about the individual that is lost when the mystical act of conceiving a person becomes standardized into a mere act of photocopying...
Third, and perhaps most important, I turned in my thesis last Friday. When I began the process last spring, I was interested in my topic of a southern California architect cast as a historical Progressive, but I was not looking forward to all the research. And, as expected, I did not revel in every one of the hundreds of hours I spent poring over books, articles, and archives...
...characters are certainly the most compelling part of this play, and the cast interacts seamlessly and eloquently. In fact, their portrayals are so accurate that they lead to one minor challenge for the audience: the faithfully rendered accents can be tough to understand but soon become familiar. For the most part, the actors' gestures and acting are fluid, with the one exception of Avant, who was a bit wooden at times, but her subtle dramatic intonation amply made up for this weakness...
From the viewer's perspective, it is obviously more history than drama, but the reenactments cast an air of artificiality on the very facts it needs to stay true to. In fact, the film seems intended to get people thinking about how history is created and how it is created out of documents...
...contrary, it was not an economic decision that led me to trudge out into a driving rainstorm and head to the union building in Central Square last September where 1 volunteered to help get voters to the polls to support Alice Wolf. After winning with a mere 91 ballots cast during crucial last hours of polling, Representative Wolf is focusing on issues of importance to her constituents, including education and housing and economic development...