Word: hyperion
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...writing to dispute your critical appraisal of the Undergraduate Council's management of organizational funding, as presented in the Friday, November 8 issue (News Feature, "When U.C. Doles Out Money, Scales Are Sometimes Weighted"). As the chair of the Hyperion Theatre Company, now recognized as an official arts organization of Harvard University, I have found the Undergraduate Council Finance Committee, and Finance Chair Stephen Weinberg '99 in particular, to be exceedingly cooperative and generous throughout the grants process. My organization has applied for council grants in each of the past two academic terms, and we have found the council application...
...Weinberg and the Finance Committee should be commended for their efforts to responsibly administer a large funding endowment to student organizations that are diverse and multi-faceted in their scope, rather than being criticized for shortcomings inherent in any bureaucratic structure. --Sam Speedie '99 Chair, Chief Executive Officer The Hyperion Theatre Company
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a twinless twin was to put himself back together again," says Whitmer. "That was really the power of his creativity--as well as the momentum behind his self-destructive downward spiral...
Elsewhere on campus there was more traditional fare. In front of the steps from Memorial Church, on a small wooden platform surrounded with leaf-covered microphones, the Hyperion Shakespeare Company made their debut with a production of "Much Ado About Nothing...
...DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS By Charles Solomon (Hyperion; $40). As productive as the studio was during Walt Disney's life (he died in 1966), many projects dear to his heart never made it to the screen. This book is a reverie on an art form whose possibilities were still being explored. The stars are not the fabled animators but the conceptual artists whose work they drew on. Here is Mickey way back when he was a rodent outlaw; drenching pastels of fairyland by Sylvia Holland; a surreal grand piano with a fierce trail of tyrannical music hovering above...