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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening scene of striking ingenuity does not hint at the wrong-headedness to come. At the edge of the stage sit Kent and Gloucester, chatting and drinking champagne. Derek McLane's austere set leaves no place for warmth. Black gauze hangs menacingly. The Lincoln rests like a hearse--Lear's castle--upstage center. Its grille grins, its headlights stare. Seven stars, like seven gods, watch from the rafters. Lear emerges from the automobile, masked in sunglasses, master of his court, eager to dispatch the richest third of his Kingdom to his youngest daughter Cordelia. But Cordelia refuses to flatter...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...rest of the cast fares less well, unable to break free of Sellars's spell, like automatons in a technocracy. Grace Shohet is properly bitchy as Goneril and Anne Clarke makes a vapidly cruel Regan but they remain one-dimensional. James Bundy plays Kent with remarkable sincerity but his brawl with Oswald (a surprisingly meaty role in the hands of David Prum) sinks to absurdity. Mathew Horsman and Judah Mandlebaum labor with Albany and Cornwall and Max Cantor skates onstage intermittently as the court's errand...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

Among the institutions that now have codes are Stanford, Princeton, Kent State, Vanderbilt, University of North Carolina, and three U.S. military academies...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Honor Codes | 2/23/1980 | See Source »

...country, but Harberger's policies neither seem to improve the economic well-being of a country nor accept responsibility for the social costs his programs demand. Can Harberger justify the number of victims of his development schemes by the far smaller number of beneficiaries. Rosalyn Lezberg Grant Barnes Kent A. Libbey Peter B. Lundett Andrew Liu Erin M. Sheridan Karin Wentz

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Policy Game | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...weak epee team lost, 6-3. the only bright spot being tow wins posted by junior Kent Libbey. Libbey rose to the occasion, displaying a heretofore unexhibited confidence by slicing by his tow MIT opponents...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Crimson Fencers Split Weekend Meets With MIT | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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