Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Akalaitis' re-interpretation loses some of the values of Beckett's conception. Hamm, looking like a Rastafarian king on his throne, lacks the self-consciousness befitting lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion...
Each hour, after students scurry across the Yard and disappear into classes, the air falls quiet except for the sound of a lone voice. A group of people gathered in front of Massachusetts Hall hear that "it is the oldest building on campus, built in 1720, and it has always been a student dorm, but now it also houses the President of the University's office...
Another story tourists hear is that no structural changes, even removing a brick, man be made on Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, because of a stipulation in the donation. But they do not hear the time-honored--but untrue--story that Widener's mother, who donated the building, insisted that all students take a swim test before graduation because her so drowned aboard the Titanic. Sanks contend that the swim test was introduced with the building of the river Houses...
While the committee is not likely to make any formal recommendations to the Faculty Council regarding the guide, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Steven E. Ozment said yesterday that he would invite editors of the guide to the next CUE meeting to hear yesterday...
...recalled to me by Bishop Tutu's remarks. Both Tutu and King impressed the listener with their moral certitude that the existing order was unjust, and their faith that injustice can be changed by moral actions of individuals--their common Christian conviction. In those years, it was common to hear the protest of the southern white. "But you can't legislate love." Presumably few expected to see the South come spontaneously into a state of perfect Christian love and then integrate of its own volition. Yet, in the few short years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the South...