Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dine together once or twice a week, none provides student living quarters. Their association with the College began in 1791 with the founding of the Porcellian and their social role has waxed and waned, its importance steadily diminshing since the building of the Houses in the 1930's. The latter (which are, as was intended, the elite amongst college dorms) were conceived and constructed by President Lowell in part to break the power of the Clubs. He succeeded and, in the present era, many students become aware of the Clubs only when those who resent Clubbies sound the tocsin...
...such concern has entered Harvard's calculus. Its authorities must believe that freedom of association is a good. They clearly believe that equal opportunity is a good. To impose membership rules on the Final Clubs is to sacrifice the former. Not to impose them is to sacrifice the latter. But (pace Clubbies) the worth of the opportunity lost to those discriminated against doesn't come close to outweighing the value--to all who would be free--of letting the Clubs do as they will...
...options left such as the economic sanctions President Reagan recently imposed. But as he cut all economic ties with that nation, diplomatic responses to Libya's aggression may no longer exist. War may come later, after some other airport atrocity, or perhaps Colonel Khadafy will change his ways. The latter seems unlikely. But it is Libya which has made the leap to war, and this is the pivotal fact in my personal decision to fight when the nation deems war is the only option left to check Libyan aggression against our citizens...
...truncated what might have been one of the great sculptural oeuvres of the 20th century. The best coup is to have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most...
Gutwiilig does an equally impressive job as the wizened and dying John of Gaunt. He realistically portrays Richard's sagacious uncle whose raspy, yet piercing voice haunts Richard throughout the play. Gutwillig also plays the Abbot of Westminster and has a brief appearance as the Gardener. This latter role proves his flexibility as an actor since he successfully and humorously fulfills the part of a gossipy old man, as opposed to the serious and frustrated John of Gaunt...