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...Dearbhla McHenry '00, who worked in the HUMS forwarding office two summers ago, said that a major problem she encountered involved mail from students who failed to provide a summer forwarding address...
...complaints spring from all sides. No one should have to practice in recycling rooms, as Caine does; oboist Dearbhla McHenry '00 remembers many quality hours spent in the Greenough laundry room. When it comes down to practice room access, "the Saturday 1 p.m. to 4:15 is a pathetic gesture," laments composer David Salvage '01. Likewise, Kar-mun Woo '01 finds it "sad and rather insulting that Harvard can't trust us enough to give us access to practice rooms without somebody there to patrol...
...Dearbhla Molloy and Elizabeth Marvel...
...focuses his rage on his peasant wife, the devoted Nora (Dearbhla Molloy), whom he married out of either propriety or love--the audience is never certain--and whom he has resented ever after as the locus and symbol of his failure. Their feisty daughter Sara (Elizabeth Marvel) resents Melody for living in the past and clinging to a tradition that makes him a fool in America, swindled by the Yankees, abusive to Nora, and hated by his patrons for his outdated gentlemanly airs...
This is, however, beautifully counterbalanced by the perceptive performances of Elizabeth Marvel and Dearbhla Molloy. Nora never falters in her love for Melody, or in her suffering for having left the Catholic Church to accommodate their early transgression which resulted in marriage. To the extent that Nora is the moral fulcrum of the play, Molloy creates a steady, understated and endearing character through lines which otherwise could be considered preachy. The real fireworks of the play, however, come from Marvel's portrayal of Sara, who is the audience's heroine and a metaphor for the future voice of America...
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