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Harper computerizes Walker's voice as she reads the choral odes, and the effect (an intense metallic breathiness) is reinforced by a tandem live recitation from two hypostylized eastern figures (Alice B., who gets to sport that big trippy mask, and Daniel Sussner '00, whose turn here doesn't compare...
Especially in the fast-moving dialogue, Williams' translation is witty--and the production benefits. Compare the literal Greek of Pentheus' sarcasm (Hos thrasus ho Bakhos, How insolent is this Bacchus!) with Williams' "Bacchic backtalk!" Again in the same scene "Deinos su deinos kapi dein' erkhei pathe (I need a macron...
There are a lot of forgotten people here at Harvard, too. It is very easy, even in the cloistered and rather self-contained environment that Harvard cultivates, to get lost between the cracks. This is not to compare any of us to that 15-year-old who lost out on...
Estefan was stung by the resulting criticism. But she couldn't have been too surprised. Politics in Miami is controlled by older, hard-line Cuban exiles who oppose anything that even slightly hints of dealing with or accommodating the Castro regime. They routinely compare Fidel Castro to Adolf Hitler, and...
What vocation is more ancient or innately human than the art of bringing people together to laugh, talk and get to know each other? Yes, doctors and lawyers and others with such "real life" jobs have it cut out for themselves, but how do their professional dilemmas compare to those...