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More than the title of the album, “Boys and Girls in America,” seems to have been borrowed from Kerouac. The songs are filled with stories from the fringes of society, told in an organized stream-of-conscious manner, with each word vital to the narrative as a whole...
...celibacy as the cause of clergymen’s sexual deviance. “Deliver Us” does not purport that the priest pedophilia scandal would be solved if priests were allowed to marry, and Berg never should have tackled such a large issue in such a cursory manner...
...Produced by Margaret M. Wang ’09, Barry A. Shafrin ’09, and Zach B. Sniderman ’09, the performance featured works by the playwrights David Ives, Tom Stoppard, Anton Chekhov, and Alan Bennett. Each play was presented in a straightforward manner, without any nonsensical or superfluous elements added to a production for the sake of being “original.” The evening began with the one play that could have benefited from a bit of creative tinkering. Ives’ short work, “Words, Words, Words...
...like to call this the “Bono effect.” Named after the granddaddy of all self-righteous entertainers who have melded promotion with selflessness, the “Bono effect” tells us that if you give away enough money in a highly visible manner, you will get back even more money through the magic of publicity. You might say that this “Bono effect” puts a whole new spin on the concept of doing work “pro-Bono.”While the “Bono effect?...
Americans are very good at debating morality and very bad at reaching any conclusions about it. In an ethically relative world like ours, all manner of moral felons - corporate criminals, drug peddlers, even killers - have at least some constituency that's willing to hear them out and show them mercy. Not so pedophiles...