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Often, poor directorial decisions contribute to the over-dramatization of the actors. In the case of blocking, the lack of acting off center stage makes the rest of the theatre seem cluttered with statues rather than actors. For example, when Titus renounces his children, one would expect his sons to be grief-stricken at both their father’s anger and their brother’s death. Instead, they expressionlessly examine the corpse as though it were a lab cadaver...
...director of graduate studies in Spanish at Harvard. In her speech, Sommer spoke of the need to embrace multiculturalism in the United States, and emphasized the value of bilingualism. “Immigrants, because they know more than one language, are more flexible and creative than monolingual people expect,” she said in an interview after her speech. “Bilinguals always think outside the box because they have more than one box to think out of.” Caban, the Latinas Unidas president, said she was already thinking ahead to future conferences, which will...
...untouchable, and a lack of offensive execution limited the amount of quality shots that he saw.While both teams scored twice, Vermont did so on just 22 shots to Harvard’s season-high 37.“It’s frustrating, because we can’t expect to win hockey games by scoring one or two goals all the time,” Donato said, adding, “We’d like to score goals, but at least generate quality scoring chances.”Richter saw some positives in the offensive struggles, as part...
...Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta From its titillating title, I expect the book will feature hoards of sexed-up teenagers and one hyper-conscious adult fighting to bring to them a sense of moral enlightenment. The cover is a picture of a green chalk board, on which two chalk birds and several chalk bees are drawn. Judging by this punny picture, this book should be entertaining, light, and full of those awkward “birds-and-the-bees” moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus...
...Oliver Sacks. Sacks, it’s true, is no ordinary scientist, and his latest collection of essays, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” is not simply a dry scientific exploration of the connection between neurology and music, as we might expect from other scientists-turned-writers. Rather, it is an original, elegantly crafted, and inspiring investigation of the distinctly human obsession with all things musical.“What an odd thing it is,” Sacks writes, “to see an entire species—billions of people?...