Word: hyperion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hyperion Players, the only undergraduate troupe dedicated solely to bringing the works of Shakespeare to the Harvard stage, have done a remarkable job with the current production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After last semester's dry and disappointing Measure for Measure, the improvement is more along the lines of a full-fledged transformation: the players have gone above and beyond the call of duty to bring out all the comedy and beauty in the play...
Part of the richness of A Midsummer Night's Dream is that it is constructed of many disparate elements: it is equal parts poetic enchantment, serious themes, erotic play and broad belly laughs. The Hyperion players understand the importance of balancing these themes, and execute each level of the play with energy and finesse, making the result far more than the sum of its parts...
...dollars, and yet the majority of attendees were council members. But perhaps you will remember last year's Casino night. No? Oh, that's right, only 30 people showed up to the event, which cost students $3,000. Contrast this with the wildly successful Cultural Rhythms and the Hyperion Theatre Company, which both receive funds from the council...
...third piece, the Schickalslied (Song of Destiny), the orchestra rejoined the chorus on a very crowded stage. The text of this piece is taken from a poem Friedrich Holderlin adapted from his own novel Hyperion. The poem glows in the first few stanzas, meditating quietly on the peace of heaven but shifts abruptly to stormy despair in describing "suffering mortals" being swept hopelessly from place to place...
...that people had to be famous for a reasonably long time before anyone would want to read a book by them. But in the go-go '90s, the period between appearing on TV and getting a fat book deal is evanescing. Last week DREW CAREY signed a contract with Hyperion publishers allegedly worth seven figures. (It's probably just coincidence that Disney owns both Hyperion and ABC, which airs Carey's 1 1/2-year-old sitcom.) JENNY MCCARTHY had been on MTV for just two years when her book was announced. JON STEWART's talk show was canceled, yet he too will...