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...Doll's House is notoriously difficult to stage. Ibsen's once radical idea of making bourgeois ladies and gentlemen into tragic heroes and heroines has become the stuff of conventional theater. The play's social commentary, so bold in the late nineteenth century, sounds amusingly quaint or downright comical if not presented with extreme care. Ibsen weaves his plot slowly and meticulously, revealing his characters as Puppets of Fate. Slaves of Society, each trapped in his own private doll house. The play demands subtlety and intelligent handling of its strong emotions and quirks of fate. Despite obvious effort, the Eliot...
Like Harvard's Houses, the clubs have distinct "personalities" that vary slightly from year to year. Ivy is the most elite. Cap is the most preppy. Tiger is home for the jocks and Cottage attracts "gentlemen athletes...
...Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State in that order and should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President...
...there is anything to mourn, it may be the passing of the old Saudi Arabia. Already there is a detectable sense of regret for a lost way of life that can never be recaptured. "If you go to the tribes now," says a Saudi technocrat, "you will find gentlemen Bedouins, like gentlemen farmers, who hire a caretaker for the sheep while they enjoy the luxuries of their new villa." But then he notes with hopeful satisfaction that after Hawaii, after Los Angeles, after Europe, many Saudis are returning to cherish some of the old ways, "to be religious...
Harvard is but one of the hundreds of stops for the Trio during its exhausting year-long anniversary celebration. Indeed, the touring schedule has been so full that what the gentlemen are really looking forward to now is a little rest. After that, they plan to continue exactly what they've been doing for the last quarter-century. How long will the Trio continue to play together? Pressler responds: "As long as the good feeling and decent living lasts...