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...squirrel fall into a chimney of Mass. Hall once when [Derek C.] Bok was president," says Alpert...
...difficulties of the fictionalized writer Sergei Leontevich Maksudov, played by Derek Smith, only hint at the real story behind Black Snow. Robert Scanlan, the ART's literary director, has explicated the fascinating history of this play. Black Snow began as White Guard, a war novel Bulgakov wrote after serving for the defeated White Guard during the Russian Civil War. Censors stopped the serialized publication of the novel in 1925, but the Moscow Art Theatre defiantly decided to stage the novel as a play titled The Day of the Turbins. Bulgakov was consequently subjected to a decade of persecution under Stalinist...
...minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin Epstein as Ivan Vasilyevich, the director of the Independent Theatre conspicuously modeled on Stanislavsky, is eminently believable in the imperiousness of his manner, the dignity...
Strong freshmen include sprinter Shayne Mauricette, who took first in the 55 meter dash, middle distance runners Ben Bowen, who took second in the 800 meters, and distance runners Brian Walsh and Derek Lombard...
...married to former University President Derek C. Bok, noted the extent of current suffering and unprecedented environmental risks, and said that countries must increase their efforts to coordinate responses to such crises...