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Today, Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences says Harvard's reluctance to continue the project stemmed from feelings that it was doomed to failure from the start. "We were talking about a 10-15 year start-up time," he says. Given a dearth of qualified faculty and administrators to staff the center, prospects for success looked marginal. Few Iranians held high-level degrees and those who did received them from foreign institutions. Harvard could construct the buildings to house RKSU, but staffing it was beyond any outside advisers' power...
...sprinted to the head of the A.L. East pack this spring. The 19-3 thrashing of the Yanks, the two-touchdown 24-10 win over the Orioles. But as the 1980 baseball season enters its stretch drive, long-suffering Jays lovers have nothing to complain about, except perhaps the dearth of beer...
...dearth of personal records of earlier family members forces Mosley in the first few chapters to give a dry account of the cousins' earlier business efforts in Delaware. Mosley, however, blunts the tediousness of some of these chapters with a catchy prologue...
Director Gillian Armstrong orchestrates Sybylla's antics with wit and imagination. Overcoming a dearth of dialogue, Armstrong injects each scene with life and imagination. Sybylla's first dinner with her grandmother is touchingly familiar to any viewer who has ever squirmed in a stiff and formal setting. As Sybylla fumbles with string beans and carrots--served on a silver platter by a butler--Armstrong accurately captures her nervousness and excitement in an intimate and endearing fashion...
Electra completes this portion of the cycle. It begins as a long threnody by Electra (Lynn Dearth). Stoking a cauldron of hatred toward her mother Clytemnestra, Dearth is a cauldron herself; if she continues at this level of passion, she cannot fail to be a top actress of this decade...