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...Manhattan Project, America's prodigious World War II program to build an atom bomb, was set in motion by the fear that Hitler's Germany would produce the weapon first. Experts in the U.S. thought German science could have a lead in the race because a German chemist, Otto Hahn, had discovered nuclear fission in 1938. His countryman Werner Heisenberg was considered by many to be the world's leading physicist and was certain to be at the center of any Nazi A-bomb effort...
...There are a lot of different people who do their own thing," says Peter S. Hahn '94, house committee co-chair. "There are no constraints to be a certain...
...know a lot more people than in other houses," Hahn says...
...roles of Zuniga (Robert Danielowich) and Micaela (Minna Hahn), are not supposed to be devoid of feeling, but an audience unfamiliar with the opera might have left Dunster on Saturday night thinking so. Danielowich's voice was strong but in mangling Bizet's French came off as unimpressive. He did not project downstage, but constantly across, his gestures at times relevant, at times not. He conveyed authority in his part, but little else...
...Hahn's Micaela, on the other hand, explored the depths of tepidity. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, her voice was most likely melodious. But the orchestra too easily drowned her out, and her acting was nonexistent. Micaela is an interesting bit part; despite her fragility, she feigns strength in her aria in the third act. Hahn had the fragility but showed no strength. Playing Zuniga and Micaela with such vapidness, Danielowich and Hahn undermined the aesthetic contributions of these characters to the opera. Piquant roles too easily become inconsequential...