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...meet once a week, but not everyone comes," Baker says. "Because our numbers are growing, it's becoming harder to have the family atmosphere we strive for. I wouldn't say we're tight-knit because it is something very specific we have in common...
...inherent to any unified artistic community--namely, that it tends to marginalize movements towards experimentation. Inevitably, any society, no matter how large or small, develops norms. While such norms can be essential for social and political bodies, they can become stifling for artistic groups. Think of nearly any closely-knit collection of artists--from the Pre-Raphelites to the Dadaists--and you'll probably be able to trace a trajectory of initial innovation followed by a slow descent into self-referentiality, imitation and, worst of all, dullness. Clearly, the relative unity of the Harvard theater world is nowhere near crisis...
...same time, the normalizing effects of a tightly knit artistic community can't be overlooked. I know of at least two other universities of greatly different natures--namely Brown University and George Washington University--that also aren't known for an overwhelming academic commitment to drama. Still, they manage to put out a steady stream of experimental student productions. In fact, their dramatic communities seem to fall on the other extreme of social normalization--i.e., "traditional" stagings and "traditional" plays are looked down upon. Such attitudes are every bit as confining as our own theatrical prejudices at Harvard, but they...
...strongman may have been banking on the possibility that the opposition coalition would fracture in the heat of violent confrontation that threatens to turn into a civil war. Or that its loose knit alliance would be no match organizationally for Milosevic's security forces in a national battle for power. But that depends on the security forces remaining loyal. To hold on to power in the face of an insurrectional challenge, Milosevic would need his security forces to use violence against demonstrators - and there were plenty of signs in the Belgrade Thursday that troops won?t kill fellow Serbs...