Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Population problems have been the most abiding concern of John D. III. He helped support Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger in the 1930s and in 1952 established the Population Council, which supports contraception research and family-planning programs around the globe. John D. III's concern over campus turmoil in the late '60s inspired his Task Force on Youth, set up to encourage and support projects in which the young can collaborate with the Establishment...
Friday, August 16 at 2 p.m. Bali Films--"Balinese Music and Dance" and "Bali Today" by Margaret Mead. Norton Lecture Hall, Fogg Art Museum. Admission free...
Alfred the Great's near-success as an independent work is due in large part to the inspired direction of Jack O'Brien and the sensitive performances of his uniformly excellent cast. Richard Kneeland as Alfred, Maria Tucci as his wife Emily, Christina Pickles as his old girlfriend Margaret, and George Martin as Margaret's husband Will, are all perfectly suited for their roles and give characterizations deepened and colored by sympathetic understanding...
...unique and distinctive voice for his or her character that brings the author's conception to life. The pugnacious bluntness of Martin's Will contrasts sharply with the desperately self-mocking sophistication of Kneeland's Alfred; Tucci's coolly arch Emily and the naive kookiness of Christina Pickles's Margaret are carefully crafted studies in opposition. These characterizations, expressed as much through inflection and gesture as in the words spoken, add greatly to the play's dramatic intensity...
UNFORTUNATELY, Eugene Lee's set does not provide a physical context for the actors that can compare with the highly-nuanced emotional context they create. The play is set in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. All action takes place in the home of Margaret and Will. Lee captures the bleak and barren quality of their marriage in the dingy walls and sparse furnishing of his interior but somehow he fails to convey the sense that this is a distinctly American environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play...