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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surrealism works to build the play's image of Thoreau, by organizing the play according to his character and not strictly to historical events. By the end of the play, all the fragments have weaved themselves together to form a coherent picture of a Thoreau who seems wise and who has learned that he cannot divorce himself from the world...
Thoreau is, of course, the play's focus, and all the other characters seem to exist merely as his foils. Emerson (Elijah Siegler) is portrayed as a well-meaning, pontificating old man who is, at the end, rather pathetic because he does nothing to act on the ideals that he inspires in Thoreau. Other characters such as Thoreau's brother (David Javerbaum) who shares and makes corporeal Thoreau's ideals, and the man from the school committee (Ted Caplow) who attacks Thoreau for not sticking to the established texts, are also well portrayed...
BOSTON--Gov. Michael S. Dukakis yesterday signed into law the Gay Civil Rights Bill, extending basic civil rights to gay and lesbian citizens and bringing to an end a 17-year-old stuggle in Massachusetts state politics...
...many disagreed. "At this place they worship diversity as a god," said Adam M. Jones '93, a resident of Holworthy Hall. "Diversity is not an end in itself. I don't think that having a lot of different people in your house is necessarily beneficial. You just have a house with more cliques...
...second down, Keys swept around left end, but Harvard safety Bobby Frame came up and made a solo tackle for a 1-yd. loss. On third down, Penn signal-caller Malcolm Glover tried to sneak into the end zone on a keeper, but defensive tackle John Sparks pursued the Penn quarterback and tackled him on the 2-yd. line. Fourth down brought more of the same, with Keys trying to find some room off left tackle and seeing "only a sea of Crimson...