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...normally dull, black walls have become like the inner walls of a house—complete with a large bay window. A layer of hardwood flooring completely covers the ground. The effect is that members of the audience literally walk into the living room of George and Martha, one of the two couples around whom “Who’s Afraid?” revolves. Set in a university town, the intense drama centers on a late-night meeting between two professors and their wives: the bitter, aging George and Martha (played by Simon N. Nicholas...
...Martha Nussbaum, a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute who has advocated a switch to cage-free eggs, called HUDS’ decision a start...
...colloquium, this scenario is presented as one of many to explore the controversial nuances of ethical animal treatment. “I think our intuitions provide clear direction. We ought to torture the horse,” says Patricia Herzog, panelist and author. Not all panelists agree: Martha C. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago Law School, recounts a “happy story” about an Asian elephant at the Bronx zoo (named “Happy”) that liked to look in the mirror. When researchers marked her ear with...
...campaign trail. “Obama’s campaign is indeed consulting widely, and that includes faculty members who are strong supporters (including me) and others who have not committed to any candidate but are glad to give advice,” Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow wrote in an e-mail...
...marital problems of my hosts feel real. Nicholas, as George, visibly develops throughout the play from a bitterly sarcastic, but still calm intellectual into a violent madman. Forbess is alternately psychotic, malicious, and seductive. Indisputably the star of a talented four-person cast, she is Martha: from the sneer on her face to the garish bray of her laugh. The couple’s repertoire vividly etches itself into one’s brain through the screamed, snarled, spat—anything but spoken—dialogue...