Word: dead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towns with one drugstore, one doctor, one minister and one cemetary; towns like the Irish hamlet where Charlie lives with his mother and father. But for all its simplicity, Our Town is imbued with the super-natural: in the cemetary that overlooks the town, a host of the dead assemble to discuss life. One of the dead, a woman named Emily, barters with the play's narrator for the chance to watch herself relive one day of her life, her twelfth birthday. The experience drains, even tortures her, and she shakes much the way we shiver when watching films...
...living mix with the dead in Da as well. Charlie, a middle-aged playwright, returns to his Irish homestead to bury his Da, his father. He tries desperately to destroy all his memories of the man, anxious to forget even the happy moments in a frustrating childhood. But hounded by the playwrights' curse, he cannot ignore the voices of the past. Charlie hears the voices so clearly that, as in Our Town, they climb again into their bodies. Soon his Da is smoking in an arm chair, his mother baking in the kitchen, and he, as a teenager, reading...
Regarding student practice of the creative arts at Harvard, the less said the better. Apart from the very competent student orchestras who provide an audible museum of long-dead and mostly romantic composers, the picture is dismal. I attended a number of undergraduate theatricals and they were all terrible. The Lampoon and the Advocate are significantly worse than even most English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts...
...obvious that some of the experiments will lead to dead ends. "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks," a short, punky rock'n roll commentary on the superficiality of college fraternities, could be a preliminary homework assignment in a "How to Sound Like Elvis Costello" class...
Women are steadily moving deeper into another once exclusive male domain -power lifting. Pam Meister, 24 and 105 Ibs., holds the current women's dead-lift record with 335 Ibs. Though some of her male colleagues at Gold's gave her a chilly reception, Meister hung tough. "I decided that I had to let them know this wasn't some kind of joke for me," she says, "so I dead-lifted 300 Ibs. three times. Since then it's been downhill...