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...Jerusalem's Old City. This is certainly as welcome as the piece itself. However, the focus of the letter, a condemnation of the Israeli occupation's deleterious effect on the moral state of Israeli and Diaspora Jewry, is presented in a fashion that is judgmental, dangerously generalizing, and devoid of any factual support or argumentation...
Heavy on symbolism and emotion--and devoid of logic--the poster represented what I have come to expect from the divestment movement on campus. Since I came to Harvard three years ago, fully sympathetic to the goal of expunging South-Africa related stocks from Harvard's investment portfolio, I have grown increasingly disillusioned with divestment activists who know exceedingly little and care even less about the probable consequences of further economic sanctions against South Africa...
...time when movies devoid of high-tech and horrifying gore and violence are few and far between, Alan Alda's most recent picture, Betsy's Wedding, gives emotion-starved moviegoers a refreshing two hours of simple entertainment. Not Academy Awardwinning entertainment, just plain old family entertainment. I saw this movie with my mother. It's that kind of movie...
...performers, two men and two women, are as appealing as any cabaret performers. The men wear tuxedos, and the women evening gowns. They strut their stuff on a stage devoid of almost all props--it is bare except for the stools brought on for the occasional duets. The simplicity of it prevents the audience from being distracted from the fantastic singing and choreography...
Until the very end of the play, the men of Monster are devoid of the humanity, which the women like Macha and her child Etain embody. The final resolution, where Lord Owain comes to lay down his weapons and his machismo, is problematic. His character has not been properly prepared for the metamorphosis. His chastity after his wife's death and his late embrace of a more empathetic way of life cannot be convincing, because, throughout the work, his character has been flat and static. Even if we did believe the change, we would know it was not entirely autonomously...