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Walker sees the play's interpretation of that experience as contemporary and relevant, and presents what she calls a "profound disillusionment with the values of the state," in a "narrow, legal and power-obsessed society." Dionysos, held in myth to be the inventor of theater, imposes on civic order a dancing, crowded and angry disorder that could sweep, perhaps, over Boston as readily as over Thebes...
While waiting in the dinner line at Annenberg Hall late last week, approximately 140 first-years opted to exercise their civic responsibilities and register to vote...
...among American cultural or ethnic groups-among the Irish on St. Patrick's Day and related events, among Chinese Americans in Chinese New Year, etc. Even non-natal ethnic persons can participate in these pragmatic solidarity, as I have done in Irish and Italian solidarity events, for they are civic solidarity in character, not sacred solidarity...
...staff would like cops to enact nobly their virtuous civic functions while refraining from profanity and without threatening to arrest students. While these qualities might be desirable in a proctor or administrator, were they to be adopted, they would be possibly dangerous constraints on the police...
Allston residents were equally outraged at the June 25th Allston Civic Association meeting...