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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leverett '80s dance, but check out this unique Me Decade act. John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band gets the floor rocking tonight. Regency Ballroom, Johnson & Wales Inn, 213 Taunton Ave., Seekonk (508) 336-8700. Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 10 p.m. $10 advance, $12 at door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRIDAY APR 23 | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Assassin hones moral acuity. By moral I mean not a value derived from the Almighty, but an understanding of human nature distilled from experience, what Samuel Johnson defined in his 1756 Dictionary as "such as is known or admitted in the general business of life," what contemporary judges mean when they speak to jurors of moral certainty. The game alerts players to the potentialities of surprise, and especially surprise betrayal, and betrayal is part of the general business of life, even undergraduate life at Harvard. In Assassin, not a stranger but an acquaintance or friend becomes stalker, raptor, assassin...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...ought to play, lest they prove useless when push becomes shove, when the night needs repossessing. Assassin sheds only a glimmery moral light, but one that once fascinated Melville and other writers preoccupied with delineating character under stress, with decrying one part of the general business of life Samuel Johnson defined. JOHN R. STILGOE is Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape. He plays laser tag in the winter dusk, and he plays...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Assassin hones moral acuity. By moral I mean not a value derived from the Almighty, but an understanding of human nature distilled from experience, what Samuel Johnson defined in his 1756 Dictionary as "such as is known or admitted in the general business of life," what contemporary judges mean when they speak to jurors of moral certainty. The game alerts players to the potentialities of surprise, and especially surprise betrayal, and betrayal is part of the general business of life, even undergraduate life at Harvard. In Assassin, not a stranger but an acquaintance or friend becomes stalker, raptor, assassin...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...ought to play, lest they prove useless when push becomes shove, when the night needs repossessing. Assassin sheds only a glimmery moral light, but one that once fascinated Melville and other writers preoccupied with delineating character under stress, with decrying one part of the general business of life Samuel Johnson defined...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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