Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Official Harvard policy is not to allow non-Harvard organizations to use the Stadium," Baaron B. Pittenger, director of sports information, said yesterday, "but we will make an exception in the interest of community relations...
What happens before the last moments of director Joseph Timko's adaption of Adolpho Bioy Casares' story makes very little sense. Eight bizarre people, vacationing on an otherwise abandoned island, stand around for six out of eight scenes before letting us know what's doing. Self-consciously they sip drinks and smoke cigarettes, all the while commenting obliquely on thunderstorms and ghosts, and on such standbys as truth and illusion. Every so often a long-winded narrator, sort of a supernatural Walt Disney, interrupts to fill those details too difficult to dramatize. Sound and light effects also butt in from...
...present honors course requirement is not, as you state, "five full courses, three of which may be related," but eight, of which three may be related. There will be no change in the total number of courses required for honors. Director of Undergraduate Studies David Perkins
...that there isn't anything to recommend it. There are unusual effects--like subtitles when nobody's speaking and (you figure the director wanted to be fair) no subtitles when the characters are talking up a storm...
...general conception of course has weaknesses. It helplessly exposes poorly written roles, like that of Simeonov-Pischik, a rather pointless proverb-spouting neighbor played by Reggie Stuart, and Chekhov's occasional lapses of imagination. They can no longer hide behind the Slavic fog. But at the same time, the director's shaping of his Cherry Orchard makes the play funny, exciting, and intriguing as well as traditionally poignant. The play took just under three hours and you couldn't notice it, which even in the Moscow Art Theatre would be quite something...