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...sheer extravagance of the production is bound to win over most, if not all, viewers. The multilayered set is a marvel; with a few turns, the Cotton Blossom shifts between views of the cabin windows, the boat's prow and box office, a kitchen pantry, the interior theater and the upper deck where the young lovers, Gaylord Ravenal and Magnolia Hawks, hold their trysts. The second act is set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the centerpiece being the Palmer House Hotel. But here, too, the set undergoes a series of eye-popping transformations, conjuring up scenes as divergent...
When I was home over spring break this year, I pulled out my photo album filled with pictures from those first two semesters in Greenough and began to marvel at the number of different paths the members of my first-year proctor group have taken and at the people that Harvard-Radcliffe has helped us become. Looking back at each member of my proctor group--young students, nervous and excited, smiling in the pictures in my photo album--I reflected on the countless ways, academic and artistic, athletic and extracurricular, that each of them has made a very real...
...still marvel at the stars, but now they are "merely" reminders of the grandeur of creation. Stars are stars, comets are comets. Neither can save us from sowing the seeds of our own destruction...
...things must happen. The Internet may come under the thumb of capitalism, become less accessible to the average user and naturally attain the basic standards of propriety and decency found in other media like newspapers and television. We will look back and marvel at the days when the electronic frontier seemed like the Wild West. Alternatively, if we want this new medium to be an unprecedented democratic experiment in free expression, we should start thinking about new rules to play...
...that his father had been an ineffective "schlemiel," that his Medea-like mother was wholly to blame for Stephen's emotional ills and, quite falsely, that the brother had committed suicide. No wonder Pollak left that encounter mentally comparing Bettelheim to "the evil Doctor Sivana, arch-nemesis of Captain Marvel...