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...casual. Last minute tidying up around the set, lights testing and the chorus' presence onstage before the show all give it the feel of a dress rehearsal. At second glance, family and friends of the Institute seem to constitute the bulk of the audience. Even publicity has been kept low-key, with no press night provided and reviews kindly prohibited...
Next week Adams travels to the U.S. for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Last year he was invited to the White House, but this year his reception in Washington will be low-key. The Clinton Administration has forbidden him to raise funds. Until he has succeeded in leading his friends in the I.R.A. down the road to peace, Adams will remain--as Seamus Mallon suggests--quite isolated...
Although yesterday's demonstration was fairly low-key (please see story, page 1), the annual Junior Parents Weekend protest has previously been a forum for vigorous--and sometimes vitriolic--objection to Harvard's resistance to increased ethnic studies offerings...
Hyman is forward-looking, and has set the College's weakling student government on a path of meaningful convalescence. There has been a notable lack of scandal and bombast--in its stead, Hyman's administration has been characterized by a low-key, steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
...opening will, we hope, be a pleasant but relatively low-key affair, celebrating the facility and the first-year students who will be using it, rather than highlighting University officers or officials," she said