Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notoriously keen on culture, and this fall the New Harvard Players are working in conjunction with the Eliot House Drama Society on an adaptation of five of Shakespeare's comedies. The director, Larry Bergreen '72, feels that plot is over-emphasized in drama, so he has put together excerpt containing certain themes, characterizations and songs for a unique view of the comedies. Billy Bauman '72 composed original music for the production. It will play in Eliot House December...
...review team has prepared a detailed breakdown of individual departments. This excerpt revealed that there are many departments without female teaching faculty. This condition implies that some chairmen deliberately screen out women applicants. The University must inquire into the hiring policies of all department chairmen. Particular attention must be given to those who have no or few women faculty. We realize that there are some academic disciplines in which there are very few women, but we are also aware of a long standing tradition of denying employment to women solely because they are women. Appropriate administrative machinery must be established...
...basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then if I don't like the results they get hell," he says. Certainly he leaves the finer points of culture to others. Once, when ATV was shooting an excerpt from The Master Builder, he asked an aide: "How's the Shakespeare coming along?" The aide murmured that it was Ibsen, not Shakespeare. "Well," said Sir Lew, "it's all costume...
...focuses on eleven days during the Czarist army's disastrous East Prussian campaign. He sees this period as the turning point of modern Russian history, leading to revolution and the birth of the Bolshevik regime. Although it occurs more than 100 pages before the panoramic novel's end, the excerpt that follows is the dramatic climax...
...into a recent poem called "The Funeral of Jan Palach." Though Palach was a Czech who set fire to himself after the Russian invasion of 1968, Shapiro says that his poem is "really about the funeral of America. More than anything I can say it demonstrates my real feelings." Excerpt: "Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up/ It was raining on the houses./ It was snowing on the police cars./ . . . And my own mother was brave enough she looked/ And it was all right I was dead." Shapiro adds: "There is a time when 1 may be willing...