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...play by Anton Chekhov, and certainly not one written in English rather than his native Russian. But Adapter Michael Frayn has achieved the satisfying illusion of one in Wild Honey, a dizzyingly funny romantic farce culled from Chekhov's untitled, and by most estimates unproducible, first extant play. Frayn is best known in the U.S. as the playwright of Noises Off, a slapstick send-up of British sex comedy, and Benefactors, a regretful recollection of the relations between two young professional couples. Wild Honey marries the wry and the rowdy strains in Frayn's writing and at the same time...
...sure, Banks' transformation one of the world's oldest extant theatrical forms into an accessible Western production--is a daunting one. And his use and integration of other media--photography, film and music--is both effective and inventive. The problems lie rather in a confusing story line and in the stiff, stylized acting that slowly deadens the strange and haunting power of Yukio Mishima's 1955 adaptation...
...Harvard's participation in and initiation of the South African Educational Program, extant since 1979. The national program spends $6 million in bringing about 85 Black South Africans to study at American universities...
...short-lived belief that one could get high off banana peels with the same sense of irony he brings to his accounts of the radical philosophy of the Diggers, the messianic communalists who sought an end to the money economy. That the humorless Diggers grew out of the still extant San Francisco Mime Troupe, a drama group performing children's puppet shows as well as social commentary sketches, exemplifies the un-predictable directions in which the Haight movement would lead. Less so, though, than the realization that the abomination now calling itself the "Starship" was once the Jefferson Airplane...
...feel that Blacks student activities help to raise the consciousness of our fellow students to the economic and social inequalities stiff extant for Black people Further, these activities, rater than being parochial instill in us a sense of Black pride and create in all people a healthy respect for differences and individuality. Anthony A. Ball '86 Vice-President Black Students Association Kenneth Johnson '87 BSA Afro-American Cultural Center Liasion Darryl Parsons '87 BSA General Organizational Liasion Brian Stevens '88 BSA Third World Student Alliance Representative Timothy A. Wilkins '86 President Black Students Association