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...creative interpretation of Tenessee Williams’s play “Suddenly, Last Summer.” This is his directorial debut, and he has worked hard to combine his artistic vision and Tennessee Williams’s script in a completely new way. Trying to avoid a disconnect between the design and text of the play, Vartikar-McCullough—with assistance from collaborators—worked throughout the summer to design all aspects of the production, including the set, costumes, and lighting. “‘Suddenly, Last Summer’ was Tennessee Williams?...
While remote services may break down physical barriers, say some skeptics, they may erect emotional ones to the detriment of the care provided. "All day long, I pay attention to the disconnect between people's words and what they are really feeling," says Dr. Eric Plakun, chair of the American Psychiatric Association committee on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists. "Tuning in to nonverbal communication is an essential part of the psychotherapy process, and even with a video interface, that seems to be a pretty complicated burden to put on a limited means of communication." Even silences during a therapy session, notes Plakun...
...scenes of paranoid soldiers, riots, and camera crews capturing the play’s most violent moments. The tone is surprisingly light considering the crimes that the dictators are being charged with: genocide and the destruction of the nation’s economy. Yet this helps to emphasize the disconnect between the realities of Nicolae (Thomas Derrah) and Elena (Karen MacDonald) and those of their people. Elena believes that she is a world-renowned scientist, although she only attended school through the fourth grade. Nicolae spends enormous amounts of the country’s budget on tributes to himself. Vlad...
...That disconnect, says Kavanagh, could engender a defacto segregation in the Irish school system - and a potentially unfair distribution of more resources to Irish schools. "These schools could unintentionally lead to a kind of white flight from English-language education," she says. At Kavanagh's English-speaking school, one of the most diverse in the country, 95% of the students are children of immigrants. At the nearest Irish-language school, only 5% of the student body is foreign-born...
...part of the HUDS food literacy project to help create programs based on students’ environmental interests. But some student representatives say they have been fielding a lot of complaints unrelated to sustainability. “One of the reasons I got involved is because there is a disconnect,” said Cassie B. Snow ’10, Kirkland House’s Food Literacy Representative. “HUDS does a good job for the most part but students don’t know how to get in touch and have their concerns heard...