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...April 11, 1775 President Samuel Langdon sent Hancock a letter threatening to replace him, but the treasurer did not respond. A series of follow-up letters went similarly unanswered and the situation deteriorated until the Corporation sent a tutor to look for Hancock, then in hiding during the Revolution, and retrieve the records. He failed and Hancock remained treasurer until his death, when he left *16,000 of unsettled University accounts and a personal debt to Harvard of *1495, for money he had unscrupuously borrowed...
...know about assault, but for battery they charge you and put you in a dry cell). The attractive, high-spirited cast avoids the twin pitfalls of archaeologist awe and camp condescension. And Lawson is a deadpan delight, a sad-clown naif in the spirit of Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. Whether scurrying for his snooty brothers' clothes while muttering an ironic "With pleasure!" or double-talking his way into the princess's ball as an Amazonian adventurer, Lawson radiates working-class star quality. He is the best reason to see the snazziest revival in town...
...small part to the tremendous enthusiasm of the cast. Rich Dikeman's Leading Player is sly, smooth, and agile. As Pippin, Justin Richardson evokes to perfection just the sort of boyish innocence and enthusiasm that the roe demands. And it's hard to believe that John D. Langdon's Charles isn't an emperor: his physical authority and voice really hold the stage. As Catherine, Pippins's final love. Susan Power conveys warms and sincerity, and on the opposite end of the scale. Ann Henry's Fastrada captures well the brashly devious and comic nature of her role Mark Morland...
...Roger O. Hirson, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz), now enjoying a lively and entertaining production at Dunster House. A rather curious musical, it is history deflated to suburban proportions, via Broadway. Pippin (Justin Richardson) is an average upper-middle class college overachiever; his dad. Charlemagne (John D. Langdon), a gruff executive type; Fastrada (Ann Henry), his mother, a matron right out of the Five Towns area; and Lewis (Mark Morland), his younger brother, the ancient equivalent of a dumb jock--a dumb warrior...
...prepped by 60 scientific consultants, faced a far less-experienced Arkansas legal team. Last week the A.C.L.U. rolled out its case and it was crushing. The lead-off witness, United Methodist Bishop Kenneth Hicks, termed the bill a clear-cut "transgression of the First Amendment." University of Chicago Theologian Langdon Gilkey was unimpressed by the fact that the state law carefully did not mention God by name. Said he: "A creator is certainly a god if he brings the universe into existence from nothing...