Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie sets. Presto: singing pygmies. Now comes this extravagant Fledermaus with singers who become a backup chorus to the brocade and the woodwork. Rosalinde (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa) gets lost in the crowd during Orlofsky's drinking party in Act II, and the vengeful Dr. Falke (Baritone Michael Devlin) blends nicely with the patterned wallpaper and the potted ferns...
Names are changed to protect the guilty as well as the innocent. The result is a fictionalized autobiography in which Kesey is called Devlin Deboree, a once celebrated novelist who served a short jail sentence in California for marijuana possession. Tracking the cast requires some familiarity with Beat Generation hagiography. The names Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso are included in a straightforward litany. But Neal Cassady, the loquacious speed demon, is swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model...
...Devlin said that the Career Center will consider the opinions of all groups involved and re-evaluate the policy before the CIA recruits again in the spring...
...university has open access to all employers," said Devlin in reference to Cornell's current recruitment policy...
According to The Cornell Daily Sun, Devlin hopes to review the issue within the next week after considering documentation provided by the protesters. He will report his evaluation to Provost Robert Baker who will decide whether a change in current policy is warranted...