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...comedy, Beethoven's Tenth. London's two major repertory companies are concentrating their energies on the Bard and other English classic playwrights. The Royal Shakespeare Company has mounted a characteristically bustling production of Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, a feminist comedy from 1610, starring Helen Mirren and Jonathan Hyde. The National Theater, the slicker and more conventional of the rep houses, is presenting Sheridan's The Rivals, with sumptuous scenery by John Gunter, all of it devoured by a cast that includes Michael Hordern and Tim Curry. Also at the National: Eduardo de Filippo...
Most of Robinson's stage characters have little in common with his real-life persons, says the actor, pointing, for example, to his most recent role as Helen Highwater, the brash hooker of this year's Pudding show, "Of Mines and Men." He explains how he developed the Highwater character: "I decided that my girlfriend's roommate best suited Helen. She's a pretty brazen, brash, real tough mama--if you'll excuse my French. I clued her in later, but she would catch me staring at her when I was visiting and she'd say, 'What are you doing...
...limited number of the most brilliant young men that can be found." These junior fellows would exchange ideas under the guidance of eminent scholars, called senior fellows, without the restrictions of graduate school or the formal dictates of a Ph.D. program. Among the eleven current senior fellows: Poet Helen Vendler, Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky and Derek Bok, the university's president...
...think an open meeting of the committee is not going to be very effective said Helen D Irvin, a student representative on the Legal Education Committee at Friday's demonstration Past open meetings she added "seemed to have no effect at all on faculty actions...
...Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs) plummeted by 45% in verbal skills and 23% in math, although the number of those taking the exams dropped by only 3%. In a time of limited resources, many institutions believe that future success depends upon attracting not just ordinary students but the finest. Admits Helen Horowitz, a public relations official at New York University, which is handing out 55 new merit scholarships of $2,000 this year: "Part of the aim is that talented students will help make N.Y.U. attractive to others in the years to come...