Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's rules exempted only owner-occupied dwellings with less than four rental units, federal- and state-subsidized housing, and all housing built after 1968. What further galls rent control opponents is that the city's rent control board--which grants rent increases and rule exemptions--is a fair but tough interpreter of the law, and it has not diluted the controls' intents...
...middle income people, and elderly residents, who do not move around." Vacancy decontrol will not hurt these tenants, Crane says, but it will free up other apartments so that landlords can charge a fairer rent. These other apartments are now occupied by young professional people, "who can pay a fair market price," he says...
...hunchback, turns in a strong performance but seems to be searching for the good lines he obviously deserves. He never finds them, and can only try to make up for the lack of laughs by relying on tiresome sight gags. As Esmerelda, the gypsy beauty, Heitzi Epstein is only fair: Her voice is good, but she lacks the force to capture the audience when the orchestra stops. Dave Studenmeund, as the lecherous but cowardly Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers and Maury Levin, as the lecherous but frustrated poet Pierre, also do their best with the weak script, while Stacy Stein shines...
...play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw parodied this middle class solution. Bumbling Professor Higgins tries to turn a flower girl into a duchess and finds that she was more of a real lady than he though. In My Fair Lady, Shaw's play became the inspiration for some memorable songs. In the current Leverett House production which goes far beyond what Shaw saw as the limiting factor of class bounds. Maura Moynihan is unforgettable as an Eliza Doolittle who reveals the duchess hidden in the flower girl (and vice versa) after all. And Andrew Agush's Henry Higgins sees only that...
Certainly Cipolla wasn't terribly serious about being pre-med while she was at Brown. She would emerge from her room feeling as if she had studied for hours, she says, and in fact she would have been in her room for a fair amount of time. But much of it was spent writing songs and children's stories, instead of building molecular models. Even if she didn't feel that art was justifiable as an end in itself, she says, she couldn't concentrate solely on science...