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...Marius, our favorite, a furlough in Nome...
...Mausekonig (The Nutcracker and Mouse King)--the tale of an eccentric, somewhat grotesque, journey into the blurred area between reality and fantasy. In 1844, a French writer, Alexandre Dumas pere softened and sweetened Hoffman's tale into the story of a young girl's Christmas fantasy that would inspire Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to stage it for the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Act One opens in the Silberhaus home where the family eagerly awaits party guests, and Clara and Fritz eagerly await the accompanying presents. Their mysterious and magical godfather, Dr. Drosselmeyer (Laszlo Berdo) enters...
...only your putative agenda--a fact I sensed after speaking to your reporter for a little while. You were just out to get Richard and Nancy. Despite hints from your reporter such as "we've had a lot of reports that Richard is abusive" I stressed that Richard Marius and Nancy Sommers always treated me with consummate courtesy. Nor had I been witness to any such abuse...
...place in a classroom; he has no patience with teachers who use their classroom as a pulpit. If you think, as the articles suggest, that this restricts "alternative" agendas in the classroom, you are probably correct. But your editorial goes much further. In effect you call Richard Marius a racist. Your report implies it--your editorial virtually comes out and says it. Richard makes "no serious effort to recruit teachers of color." This is just not true...
...endorsements of Expos are rare. Long the outlet of first-year disgust, the writing program and its director are now under the general scrutiny of the Harvard community. With my own experience fresh in memory, I would like to redirect some of this criticism. The problem runs deeper than Marius. Harvard's undergraduate administration is itself at fault for failing to effectively incorporate the writing program in the College curriculum. Expository Writing needs a mandate for change to come from the College itself...