Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CASUAL OBSERVER of Harvard theater gets the definite impression that relatively few people want to put on a comedy. Sure, there are occasional Shakespeare or Wilde pieces, but very rarely is there a comedy that one can regard as real relaxation therapy. Mostly, the theatergoer gets a strong dose of serious drama pregnant with a serious message. During the midterm season, such an overdose of gravity could be dangerous to your health, or at least to your stomach. Not to worry, however. Into this season of dramatic doldrums comes The Good Doctor, and any strong message he might have...
...first thing that the casual observer notices on a Black Alumni Weekend poster are the large words "all are welcome." This is the Key to the Black society of Harvard. The BSA is not saying "stay away, what we do is ours." Rather, The BSA by means of Alumni weekends, parties, readings and a host of other proposes is saying to Harvard "look, this is what we've done a young are welcome in participate." It is not an assertion of separatism and isolationism but one of identify and accomplishments. And accomplishment is something Harvard should support...
Both ballets are casual, debonair and refreshingly free of pretension. Gordon, whose own Pick Up Co. uses dialogue as well as tapes and movement in performance, manages to shift smoothly into the more formal vocabulary of classical ballet. Field, Chair and Mountain is set to a noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like...
...advent of the computerized library has also brought new problems. Computers have a way of making simple research tasks more difficult--for example, when a casual user needs computer instruction just to find a book. Even trained librarians say there is an art to performing an efficient data- base search; an awkwardly phrased query can quickly lead to information overload, generating hundreds of responses. At the same time, computers can be too efficient, eliminating what is called the serendipity factor. "The real joy of scholarly research is discovering something valuable in the process of looking for something else," says Arnold...
Although truth usually conquers such error in the realm of serious scholarly debate, there is less likelihood of dispelling the distorted beliefs about history that casual viewers bring away from docudramas. Few books ever become truly "definitive," in the sense that no further books are written to challenge their interpretation. But docudramas have far less often retraveled ground covered by previous examples of the genre. If the only show on a subject is erroneous, corrective information may not sink in when conveyed in the less vivid form of print. The TV networks are plainly within their constitutional rights to make...