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You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the musical by Clark Gesner based on Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts” comic, brought loveable loser Charlie Brown and his gang off the funny pages and onto the stage last weekend. The Mather House musical, ably directed by Katherine F. O’Gara ’05, cashes in on the cuteness factor of the characters, each of whom colorfully searches for meaning in life in a way only little kids...
...English muffin with grape jelly and drank coffee from a Styrofoam cup, then sat down to his drawing table and the long, white Strathmore board with the five-inch-by-five-inch panels in which he drew the daily strip. "He attempted to be ordinary," recalls Clark Gesner, author of the musical "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." He wanted to be what he thought he had always been - a regular person...
According Mark Gesner, director of the Boston hostel, most people don't realize hostels support educational programs and other charities...
Demonizing the Alps, however, was far from universal. The naturalist Conrad Gesner, who climbed Mons Pilatus in 1555 to disprove its diabolic reputation, thought of the Alps as the "work of the Sovereign Architect." To 19th century Romantics, the Swiss mountains were symbols of virtue, and the herdsmen who dwelt there paradigms of primitive democracy. Thus the Alps through history have been rather like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what meaning you'll find inside them...
...thought to have carried to the bottom four captured mutineers from H.M.S. Bounty shackled in irons. Since the wreck was discovered nine years ago, it has yielded some 800 well-preserved artifacts. But a shortage of funds cut off exploration two years ago. "If the funding continues," says Peter Gesner, the museum's assistant curator of maritime archaeology, "we can expect to end up with tens of thousands of artifacts...