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Legendary Boston theater critic Elliot Norton, writing in the Boston Daily Record about the Harvard Dramatic Club's December 1956 performance of Hamlet in Sanders Theatre, began his remarks by saying: "Although this Hamlet is not perfect...it is intelligently conceived and acted; In it the student players continually pass the bounds of usual undergraduate performances." It would certainly be too facile to say that history repeats itself, but Norton's words are, by happy chance, applicable to last weekend's appearance of Hamlet in Sanders, much-hyped as the first production of the play there since...
Peggy's Cove was born of a shipwreck. Legend has it that the tiny hamlet on the coast of Nova Scotia was named for a woman pulled back from death at sea by a local sailor. The only survivor of a doomed ship, she was nursed back to health by her rescuer. They fell in love and married. Such romances and heartening miracles are woven into the visions of the village. At St. John's Anglican Church, two paintings that frame the altar serve as fonts of meditation: in one, a fisherman clinging to a tattered sail searches...
...tranquil hamlet of Morris Township, N.J., knows quite how to react to the news. Cops had staked out Sunnymede for seven months; they moved in for the bust in early August, hauling off four suspected prostitutes and 15 agitated men, some of them corporate executives spouting excuses about having got lost ("I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," said one) and about having expected only a rubdown ("My shirt was on. My pants were on," said another). Last Monday the brothel's alleged madam, Judith Kelly Dempsey, 46, returned to her $1.6 million home from...
...used to about angry boys who kill cats for sport; "Rusty" Weston made it to age 41 before he started killing people too. He divided his time between his parents' home in Valmeyer, Ill., and a shack on a half-acre plot in Rimini, Mont., a dirt-road hamlet in the shadow of Red Mountain named by isolated Irish miners smitten by a touring performance of Tchaikovsky. He panned for gold with little luck, tinkered with junked cars and lived on government disability payments that were based on a history of mental illness. Neighbors knew enough to keep a polite...
...been catching up on summer reading: The Name of the Rose, Hamlet, All the King's Men, stories about life among letters, the perils of indecision and politics, all somewhat relevant to the life of any 20-year-old college student...