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...program notes, co-director Mathias F. E. Crawford ’05 writes that he tried “to stay away from attempts to make [the freshman musical] sound like an exercise in Tony award-winning Broadway theater.” That’s fortunate, for on such grounds, The Happy Few ranks as unsatisfactory in material and execution. Yet, as an experience for the staff, cast, crew and even audience, that’s not what the freshman musical has been about. And for a group of first-years getting together and putting on a production they...
Directed by Mathias F. E. Crawford...
...have been easier to achieve in Hollywood's so-called Golden (read: Caucasian) Age, when actresses were not merely ornaments to stud stars, and women's roles were not appendages in macho movies. Then, the dream factory custom-made its shiniest vehicles to suit the likes of Garbo, Stanwyck, Crawford, Lombard, Monroe, Shirley Temple and two ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood relegated blacks, actors and actresses, to the corner of the frame, to menial roles, to dialogue that usually...
...abandoned the peace process. He is considering whether to call for an international peace conference aimed at establishing the terms of a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. White House sources say Bush will probably discuss the idea with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who will visit Crawford, Texas, this week. But Bush's perceived approval of the Israeli military offensive has infuriated Arab leaders. The Saudis say that before agreeing to participate in peace talks, Abdullah will insist that Sharon lift the siege on Arafat, withdraw fully from the newly occupied territories and settle territorial disputes with Syria...
...Pressure on the Bush administration to intervene more forcefully - and to consider some form of international security presence - will continue to grow in the coming weeks, not least when Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah visits the President's ranch in Crawford next Thursday. Because right now it may take no more than a single suicide bomber in an Israeli city to set off a chain of events that plunges the region into chaos...