Word: gablers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in 1961, young Jim Gabler came home from high school in Hawkins, Texas, and told his parents that he was bothered by his history textbook. When his father, Mel, read the book, Our Nation's Story, he was more than bothered; he was outraged. In a chapter on the U.S. Constitution, the book puffed up the powers of the Federal Government but minimized states' rights. Recalls Gabler: "It was teaching that Washington has complete dictatorial power...
...this drive is to increase our registration toatal and to boost the percentage who actually end up donating," Gail Gabler '81, chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Blood Drive Committee, said yesterday...
...classics, the Boston Shakespeare Company presents an offbeat Much Ado About Nothing, January 18-21 at 8 and Thursday and Saturdays at 8, until February 26; Henry IV Part I is also offered, Fridays at 8 and Wednesday, February 1. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler runs through February 11, Wednesday and Friday at 8 and Saturday at 5 and 8:30, at the Lyric Stage...
Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The plot, a study in conflict and alienation, revolves around a brilliant and selfish woman caught between fierce inner pride and contempt for those nearest her, between past choice and present entrapment, between a stifling marriage and fascination with an old admirer now involved with another woman...
...Winthrop House production faithfully reproduces Ibsen's disturbing vision, but like any other Hedda Gabler it must stand or fall on the interpretation of the lead role. Fortunately, Amy Aquino delivers a strong and deftly-controlled performance. In her physical expression, especially, she holds Hedda's dichotomies in convincing balance. The cold, intense eyes and queenly carriage reflect her aristocratic upbringing and twisted idealism, while slight gestures--hands rubbed nervously together, a flash of anguish in the face--betray the tensions seething within her. Aquino centers the drama's energy by compressing it, displaying a clenched surface that makes Hedda...