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...storyteller Brother Blue, a great choice to play narrator John Gower, appeals well at first. Yet each time he comes on stage he affects the same position, demeanor, voice and gestures until his idiosyncrasies become grating and tiresome. Pericles, played by Ben Halley Jr. mimics a stiff operatic James Earl Jones, a stunning figure with fine diction, but his manner is too rigidly classical and neither dramatic nor human. Sandra Shipley as Thaisa plays her role with quiet understanding and control. With only a few lines, she surmounts Pericles as the family's core. Jeannie Affelder '83 as Marina speaks...

Author: By Webster A. Stone, | Title: Beyond Interpretation | 10/21/1983 | See Source »

...instance, which has the sound of a flat slap in the face. Yet a few days after Watt's remark, in a bizarre protest demonstration in his defense, a man on crutches supported the usage, citing other contexts where "cripple" is benign. True enough. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz forced himself out of the Ford Administration by telling a cruel and tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating self-mocking black stereotypes. Context seems all, or much at any rate. One might imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Reagan is Funny and Watt Not | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...although Harvard Couch Steve Pike refused to comment about the officiating, his Earl Weaver-like antics during the game indicated that he was equally upset. Pike was, however, pleased with the play of Dave Fasi, Adam Button, Steve Munatones, and goalie Brian Graham. He thought the game, for all its distractions, was no real indication of the teams' relative strengths, except that Brown showed that it does have more depth than the Crimson. He added, "After we took a shot their guards would break for our goal and if the shot was blocked they would be in great position. Twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Have Brown Nightmare | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

This time there was no simple sentence that meant "guilty" or "innocent," no terse phrase that decreed a statute "unconstitutional" or "constitutional." Yet the 1,000 words that Chief Justice Earl Warren read off to the crowded Supreme Court chamber one day last week released a powerful tide of law that will change the social face of the South before it has rolled to its farthest reach. A year ago the court decreed Negro segregation unconstitutional in public schools of the U.S. Now, after long consideration of pleas by Negro and Southern white lawyers, of advisory briefs from the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1955: The Supreme Court Demands Desegration | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...have imagined that the Parthenon would explode in 1687, destroying 14 of its exterior columns, when Turkish gunpowder stored inside it was hit by true-eyed artillery men of the Venetian Republic, firing near by from the Hill of the Muses? Or that in the 19th century, the seventh Earl of Elgin would carry down from the hill pediment statues and one maidenly caryatid, all doomed to sail in ships made of wood to a foreign place not loved by thundering Zeus, the British Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Crumbling Parthenon | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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