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Born in Seattle, he started musical studies at the University of Washington at eleven, later worked with Darius Milhaud, both at Mills College and in Paris, and then earned his doctorate at Stanford. (On the other side of the lectern, he has taught at the University of Michigan since 1973.) But something about conventional composing left him dissatisfied. "I got tired of the aesthetics and doctrinaireness of it," he recalls. Two failed marriages made everything worse. "My personal upheavals made me question everything...
Standing behind a portable lectern and using a huge chart that outlined the charges, Keker contended that North, a highly decorated former Marine officer and White House aide, had a defense of "the devil made...
...slightly introverted art historian, a fellow traveler in the women's movement, who clings to her values long after her more committed friends switch allegiance from communes to consuming. At the pivotal moment in the play's second act, Heidi (played by Joan Allen) stands behind a lectern on a bare stage, giving a luncheon speech to the alumnae of the prep school she once attended. Slowly the successful veneer of Heidi's life is stripped away as she tries to ad-lib a free-form answer to the assigned topic, "Women, Where Are We Going?" Heidi's soliloquy ends...
...Leverett House production of A Man For All Seasons, a strong cast under the able direction of Joshua Frost brings this British history lesson to life. With Frost behind the lectern and a host of interesting characters to fill up a good three hours, the play ends up being a noteworthy experience...
Some Americans found the Bush Administration surprisingly slow and reserved in its response. But at midweek the President finally stepped up to the White House lectern and criticized Khomeini's death sentence as "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior." Bush warned that Washington would hold Iran accountable for "any actions against U.S interests." While it was the strongest statement thus far from anyone in the Government, there was little more that the Administration could do. The U.S. had no diplomatic pawns to move, nor had it ever ended the trade embargo imposed on Iran in 1979. In fact...