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...possibilities of theater than most New Yorkers get in an entire season. The plays that succeed on and off Broadway these days are, as a rule, small things: two-and three-character relationship dramas (those big casts cost money!); minimalist exercises in craftsmanship; tidy little plays that convert big subjects into manageable private dramas (Proof, Copenhagen, How I Learned to Drive, to name just a few recent award winners). Plays of epic size and scope, works that examine American history and the American experience, plays that attempt to engage the audience in social and political issues--for those, mostly...
...think he gave up trying to convert me,” he says. “But he was very tolerant...
...Anita Seth put it, “I never believed that it would be possible for us to lose.” But it was possible. In fact, it was inevitable. GESO lost the election because its belligerent behavior angered and disgusted many of the students they sought to convert. Further, GESO lost because their platform of graduate student unionization makes no sense for the academy...
Cabot House Master James H. Ware was an early convert...
...must become much more efficient and more clever in the ways we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge, and create actionable options," Poindexter said last year. Poindexter has been controversial for his role in the Reagan administration Iran-Contra scandal, which led to a 1990 conviction for providing false information to Congress, though that verdict was ultimately overturned...