Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday night; it was raining in the hearts of the cast, too. To add to the downpour, the audience before long was weeping tears of frustration. The Cabot House Drama Society production of The Tempest sports some fine acting, thoughtful direction and engaging drama. But these faint mitigating rays fail to illuminate the bleak landscape of the show...
...cast and crew of the Cabot production of The Tempest fail not only to pull off their grand ambitions of reinterpretation and "contrapunctual texture"--they fail even to fulfill the basic demands of drama. So the endless time and effort necessary to put on a play all go to waste. If you decide to brave the rains to see The Tempest, be prepared for a wet fish...
When professors fail to retire and turnover diminishes, the diversity of Harvard's faculty suffers. Many older professors remain on the cutting edge of scholarship. However, a scarcity of open teaching spots retards Harvard's progress in adding Harvard's progress in adding faculty with new methods of teaching and scholarships, as well as adding more women and minority professors...
Unfortunately, the typical debate about crime and gun control often resorts to a dichotomy between the decrease of criminal power and the increase in police power. The two most prevalent solutions offered to assuage the rising crime rate fail to recognize the only real solution empowerment of the individual...
...GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S SOcial comment is pretty stingless these days, but there's still spark in the love triangle in CANDIDA, where the title character chooses the "weaker" of two men -- not the lonely boy inured to pain but the proud public man, used to cosseting. Candida's fail-safe feminist speech enlivens the otherwise kittenish and cloying Broadway debut of Mary Steenburgen, an Oscar winner for Melvin and Howard. But the real joy is watching fellow film star Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids) as her coltish adolescent admirer. He brings quiet reality to the most...