Word: let
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DESPITE Frayn's basically witty dialogue and the realistic two-story Brent summer home designed by director John Claflin, most of Act I drags. Act III, due to no fault of the actors, is also a let-down. Act II, however, fraught with fast-paced action and funny mime sequences, is definitely the most entertaining part of the show...
...tradition of the 1975 UN resolution, toward the delegitimization of the Jewish state. Whether Harvard should allow such nonsensical lies to gain a hearing at the Divinity School seems trivial compared to the far more dangerous trend of equating Zionism as racism through the Israel-South Africa analogy. Let us not forget the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an ardent supporter of the state of Israel, who warned that anti-Zionism often acts as a shield for anti-Semitism. Glen I.A. Schwaber...
...These are appreciated, but being a worker and a man of concrete work, I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now," said the mustachioed 46-year-old former shipyard electrician...
Leaving the passions of the '60s aside, let us realize just where these omnipresent literary phrases originate. Professor Blumenthal is an associate professor of English, and to pretend that these quotations are his ready witticisms is to ignore the critical fact that they are also his stock and trade, the entire basis for his job here at Harvard. Freud's word was und, not oder...
...came to view successful marriages as the exception to the rule, who came to understand that, for their parents' generation, passion and durability were a trade-off--the youth of the '80s are "at-least-surviving." Before I engage in a generalization as broad as Professor Blumenthal's, let me stress that the one-night stand still exists, that many or most look with admiration on those who have managed to balance school and love and those who plan to marry. The youth of the '80s are not monolithic in their "deglandularization," but if we must have a tendency...