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...helped had the BSC taken a more earnest stab at this drama. Wilde wrote a charming satire that, besides entertaining, might stimulate some thought on the excessive concern of the aristocratic class with manners and decorum. Random male-female substitution does not add anything to the effectiveness of this endeavor, and overacting never does...
Those involved in the retouched endeavor have had no difficulty finding rationales for the change. Richard Abell, director of program development, commented that "the philosophy is that the goose that laid the golden egg for the American dream has been the economic system." Ruppe feels that "personal enrichment and economic growth are vital and appropriate additions" to the original aims of the Peace Corps. Although personal growth has always been a part of the program ("The toughest job you'll ever love," the brochures promise) not until now has the program added the promise of "rich" to the concept...
...topic that fascinates her, but one that "creates a lot of unease" among linguists, she says. So while she devotes her thesis to the analysis of Kikuyu, a traditional subject, she has made the issue of language and power between the sexes a second intellectual endeavor. It offers "a chance for me to express my feminism," she says, noting that academic pressures have forced her to sacrifice much of her earlier involvement with the University's Women's Center...
...commit themselves to three months of intensive hard work in a place far from home. Knocking on doors for 12 and a half hours a day, six days a week is grueling, but it is more of an adventure than anything else. Selling books is not an intellectual endeavor. All it takes to do well is the desire and stamina to keep on going, rejection after rejection. At times, the work is emotionally straining and humbling, but gradually after accruing confidence and skills-the welling process becomes easier and more rewarding. Basically, there is little reason why anyone should...
...jarring mistakes ("My lordship"). And the occasional intervals of equally forced dialogue sit strangely among the arias. But once you adjust to the production's apparent aim--to showcase actual, civilized musical finesse in this outpost of barbarity--it's impossible not to appreciate the success of the endeavor. The grown-up world does have its charms...