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...naked, sun-baked disc of a stage, designed by John Napier, is shaped like an inverted shield. The prophet Calchas has told King Agamemnon that the thousand ships becalmed in the harbor at Aulis will receive no favoring wind to retrieve Helen and ravage Troy unless he makes a blood sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. With passive fatalism, Agamemnon sends a duplicitous letter to his wife Clytemnestra asking her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis on the pretext that she is to be given in marriage to Achilles, supreme hero-in-arms...
Speakers at the rally included George Wald, Higginson Professor of Biology Emeritus, and Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility...
...Helen Caldicott, an outspoken anti-nuclear activist and member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, told the group that "nuclear war, indeed any war, is contra-indicated... Over my dead body will they draft my sons and send them off to get killed," she added as the crowd cheered...
...Martin Kilson, alleging that he had tried to kiss her on the lips. Kilson denied the charge but admitted kissing her on the forehead as a spontaneous gesture of affection. He was formally reprimanded, the first known action in a sexual harassment case at the university. Said his accuser, Helen Sahadi York of Brooklyn: "I just saw him as patronizing and somewhat sexist-he calls every woman a gal-then it was very obvious when he kissed me." York insists the kiss was "psychologically damaging in itself," and registered her complaint "out of feminist consciousness and to test the system...
...brochures. "What other cities did in the '60s and '70s, Denver is doing better in the '80s!" It is home-town boosterism, of course, but in this case the hyperbole is close to the truth. There is an advantage to being last, and Denver's Helen G. Bonfils Theater Complex, which opened with the new year, has learned from everybody else's mistakes. Elegantly beautiful, it also boasts what may be the most flexible and workable cluster of theaters in the country...