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...works by acclaimed playwright and Harvard visiting professor Adrienne Kennedy, is ostensibly a play about violence. "I was asked to talk about the bloody imagery in my work," says Denise Nicholas at the start of the performance, playing a famous writer returning to give a lecture at her alma mater. "Bloodied heads, severed limbs, dead father, dead Nazis, dying Jesus." But those audience members looking for a shocking array of violence and defacement, a visual testament to the horrors of American racism which the play so brilliantly confronts, will have to look elsewhere. Yes, there is violence in The Ohio...
Residential "blocking" strikes me as a lousy system for arranging students--whether in groups of eight, 16, or any other (Editorial, March 12). Instead, I suggest that the College consider an approach that has worked well for my alma mater, Yale: Assign first-years to Houses before they arrive in September and group them in the Yard so that, for instance, Eliot first-years are assigned to Matthews...
...They rarely take Mar. vacations 5. It's ending in June 9. When doubled, a song of Bush's alma mater 10. Boys Town is near this city 12. German firm EM.TV is buying the Jim __ Co. 13. MGM Grand has offered to buy it 15. Neurologist's tool, for short 16. One of the Coens 18. __ Perce (early Westerners) 19. Part of many Quebec place names 20. Initials of '52 and '56 21. Mary Quant design 22. Georgia was one, once 23. Richards, who called Bush "Shrub" 24. Peter Ackroyd's The __ Papers 25. Item burned in protests...
There are several factors favoring McCain here. Republicans are mostly moderate, and independents can vote in this open primary. Plus, McCain's alma mater in Annapolis keeps plenty of Navy folks in the state. Delegates are allocated by district, but McCain should win most, if not all, making this another good Eastern state...
...Brien, who is the host of NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," will return to his alma mater to speak at the June 7 event--15 years after he himself graduated from Harvard...