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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subtler was Gail Casson's disquieting solo, "Marooned." A crumpled piece of cloth served in turn as the dancer's nursed and dandled baby, as an alien object enkindling fear, as the skirt in which she danced with measured delicacy or frenzied abandon, and finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: More Than a Theory | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty for special projects, had told the ad hoc committee any elected student could address the Faculty on any issue, Gail L. Sokoloff '81, a member of the ad hoc committee, said yesterday...

Author: By Peter R.mason, | Title: Ad Hoc Core Committee Upset Over Petition Misrepresentation | 4/13/1978 | See Source »

Ever regret passing up that course in anthropology or art history? College on Your Own (Bantam; $6.95), a new 417-page anthology of college reading lists, offers a second chance to set out on all those roads not taken, in or out of college. Compiled by Gail Thain Parker, former president of Bennington College, and veteran Guidebook Author Gene R. Hawes, the book is an intellectual Whitman's Sampler. The reading lists have been approved by some 20 professors at leading colleges. Their fields range from such traditional disciplines as art history, English literature and mathematics to such newer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Handy Guide for The Autodidact | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...long shoreline failed miserably, perhaps in part because of a heavy sea that fouled radar reception. Even so, the terrorists lunched on the beach at high noon and rested for an hour before beginning their bloody hitchhike to Tel Aviv. No one disturbed them. They encountered a woman, Gail Rubin, taking pictures on the beach. After learning from her where they were, they killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tragedy of Errors | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...dancing and the pieces varied considerably. The subject matter ranged from an interpretation of different phases of the night by Liz Wilkerson '78, to a dramatic portrayal of a one-legged incarnate animal spirit by Connie Chin '79, to a mime-like solo by former Radcliffe student Gail Casson of a woman apparently giving birth...

Author: By Jeremy Metz, | Title: Choreographing the Emotions | 3/22/1978 | See Source »

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