Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helen (Karen Allen) is in her early 20s and studying for a degree at Radcliffe under the spartan tutelage and omnipresent care of Annie (Jane Alexander), who is now 37. Into this antiseptic den of discipline walks a former Harvard instructor of English, 25-year-old John Macy (William Converse-Roberts), who is applying for the job of editing some articles that will eventually grow into Helen's autobiography. An ardent socialist, John foists a couple of books by Karl Marx on Annie and, before five minutes go by, steals two highly subversive kisses. The haunting note of bliss...
...Karen Allen's Helen is a mountain brook washing over shining pebbles of self-discovery with a child's delight and limpid innocence. As for Converse-Roberts' John, he is a kind of D'Artagnan, fencing for his life, shielding his love against his love. Among them, Playwright Gibson, Director Arthur Penn and the entire cast ignite one of those blazing bonfires that keep serious dramatic theater inextinguishable...
Many recipient were aware of the award's career value. It's certainly a nice thing to staple to the old resume." Karen Rochin '82 said yesterday. But Rochin sees the whole Phi Beta Kappa proceeding as representing "the best and worst things about Harvard," adding. "It combines both the pretensions with the tradition...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
...someone who never rowed until his freshman year in college. Kiesling seems to have submerged himself into the crew mindset fairly effortlessly. Even his love life he can't get away from crew. Witness this reminiscence of his first love "Karen and I first met on the dock at the boathouse as the carried her single scull down the gangway "How romantic Kiesling apparently employs the same methods to achieve success in all his activities. "She had loved me for the clarity that marked in all his activities. "She had loved me for the clarity that marked my endeavors...