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Especially in the fast-moving dialogue, Williams' translation is witty--and the production benefits. Compare the literal Greek of Pentheus' sarcasm (Hos thrasus ho Bakhos, How insolent is this Bacchus!) with Williams' "Bacchic backtalk!" Again in the same scene "Deinos su deinos kapi dein' erkhei pathe (I need a macron)," "You are wonderful, wonderful" (Laurence Welk, anybody?) "And wonderful are the experiences you go to meet" becomes in Williams "You are awe-inspiring. Your outcome will inspire awe." The translation and the production share the great felicity of exaltation in the words themselves...
...December, two prominent scholars at Harvard graduate schools died. Stimson Professor of Law C. Clyde Ferguson, an authority on human rights and affirmative action, died at 59 of a heart attack. Ferguson had served as dein of Howard University Law School and U.S. ambassador to Uganda, and had held numerous other academic and diplomatic posts before joining the Law School faculty...
...plans and bifurcated nuclear mushrooms, are passages, in German, from letters Mary wrote to her mother in 1943 and 1944. One telling example of modern history's ambiguity is the air-raid instructions one letter repeats from German posters: "Put all lights out. Light means your death [Licht dein Tod]" Yet, as Mary Bauermeister points out today, to an artist light means not death but life...
Choir: Alle Menschen werden Bruder Wo dein sanfte Flugel weils...
...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Ga-dein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...