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...with the text and texture of Olivier's life and career. He was the son of a fifth-generation Anglican clergyman, yet he found his soul upon the wicked stage. The foremost classical actor of his time, he attained his first eminence as a West End matinee idol, and his second as a Hollywood dreamboat in Wuthering Heights (1939) and Rebecca (1940). Though he pored over scripts like a new critical scholar, he was an irrepressibly physical stage performer, scaling balconies and executing dizzying falls with Fairbanksian elan. Like many men, Olivier housed a congeries of contradictions; uniquely, he transformed...
South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, which has emerged as one of the foremost venues for new work, served Henley well in its straightforward production of Abundance, a skeptical re-examination of 19th century frontier mythology through the eyes of two mail-order brides. Henley's underlying theme seems to be the way people change during the course of life, often swapping roles with intimates: the exuberant pioneer gradually becomes a timid drudge, while her starry-eyed friend hardens into an adventurer. The final scenes do too much too fast and too vaguely. But the script has the makings...
...Bunting Institute provides funding and office space for younger women scholars seeking to attain recognition, the Murray Research Center acts as a clearinghouse for research on all facets of women's experience, and the Schlesinger Library for the History of Women in America holds one of the foremost women's studies research collections in the country...
Panelists said Horner has helped make the women's college one of the foremost resources for the study of women's lives. In addition, Ware said, the retiring president brought the school through a crucial time in which Radcliffe was a haven from "the climate in Harvard Yard, [which] was chilly to the study of women...
...past 17 years, Horner has been responsible for defining Radcliffe's current relationship with Harvard, and for establishing Radcliffe as what many call the foremost research institute on scholarship by, for and about women. However, in recent years, Radcliffe has been accused of neglecting undergraduates by focusing primarily on its postgraduate programs...