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...July 31. Albert Sacks will walk out of his office on the second floor of Griswold Hall at the Law School. It will be about 7 p.m., his usual departure time. He will tell a couple of jokes to his secretaries and assistants. to whom he has grown so close, and then he will leave. It will seem like an ordinary evening...
...president now recalls, the decision had not been easy. The successor to the legendary Erwin H. Griswold--who had left the Law School to become U.S. Solicitor General--Bok had only held the post of dean for two-and-a-half years. Bok rolls his eyes when he discusses the dilemma he faced; after all, he had barely begun his tenure and to leave Langdell meant abandoning his plans. Bok also had to deal with what he calls a "classic problem: how you weigh an opportunity to work in a domain that's smaller and more accessible--where...
...from the Eastchester School, Elizabeth Justice, Cheryl Feldman, Patricia van Buskirk and Laura Campo, are the scheming debutantes who amuse themselves with Jane Austen novels, croquet and garden parties while all the time secretly wishing for men. Their hopes are answered with the four forest rangers, Josh Goldhaber, Kent Griswold, Mike Fancher and Jon Weinberg. The rangers try to come across as boyish Keystone Kops, which is fine, but their image would be more effective if they were all clean-shaven...
...Fellini and early Bergman. Moods billow like the Dry Ice currents that lap across the stage, suggesting waters as grim as the Styx. Characters are rarely who they seem to be. Even Poe is not always sure who or where he is. His antagonist is a shadowy character named Griswold - based on Poe's vindictive literary executor, Rufus W. Griswold - who seems to be lago here, Mephistopheles there, even turns into Poe himself...
...soprano to die more than once, and the limpid-voiced Karen Hunt makes the most of it. But it is the men who dominate Poe, as they do in operas like Otello and Don Carlos by Argento's idol, Verdi. Tenor George Livings (Poe) and Baritone John Brandstetter (Griswold) go at each other with sonorous hatred...