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...want to convey the feeling of the past, the shadows of what was," Mallardi says, adding that she hopes her production will suggest the history of the Radcliffe Gym and the ghosts of athletes past...
They disturb no reader, either, for Willard fails to convey a sense of why they were so great. Why does Iron Man McGinnity remember his first home run? Is there anything Lou Gehrig won't do for his mother? What is it about baseball that calls men back from the dead? The average reader, caught up in a tale of love, war, and the supernatural, won't ask those questions, but it's a shame Willard, definitely an above-average writer, does not answer them...
During the meeting between the fasters and Sovern-the first since they began the hunger strike-Sovern agreed to "convey their [the strikers'] concerns to the special committee of trustees studying South African investment policy," according to a statement released by the university at 8:30 p.m. yesterday. The 23-member board of trustees has final say over investment policy...
DIED. George London, 64, commanding bass-baritone with a rich, dark-hued voice and the dramatic presence to convey the menace of Scarpia in La Tosca, the majesty of Wotan in The Ring and the elegance of Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; after a long illness; in Armonk, N.Y. He found success quickly, with critically praised debuts at Europe's leading opera houses and New York City's Metropolitan. In 1960 he became the first American to sing Boris Godunov at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. In 1967 a paralyzed vocal cord cut short his career; he turned...
Though Moore is adept at slapstick humor, his longterm aspirations are in a more serious vein. In the future, Moore hopes to work for a theater that is both popular and able to convey a message. "I don't like meaningless Broadway entertainment, but I also don't like to go and set there and feel stupid, trying to figure out the director's meaning." Moore thinks that avant-garde theater is becoming too elitist and inaccessible, and terms it "pretentious...