Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which makes the Harvard Summer Theatre Ensemble's production a very impressive feat. This performance, the ensemble's first, manages to take Shakespeare's improbable jumble and confront the maze of bleak themes. Yet it still maintains the delicate balance between humor and pathos which Shakespeare himself did not seem to have merged terribly well into the playwrighting...
...emerging foreign policy papers offer hope of providing clarity and consistency to the Administration's views of the world, one thing more seems urgently needed: the studies must be speeded through the bureaucratic maze and reach the President's desk. He-and the nation-needs all the expert guidance on world affairs that Ronald Reagan can acquire and master...
Still, the most worrisome problem stems from two Dáil seats that will remain empty. Their would-be occupants, I.R.A. Militants Paddy Agnew and Kieran Doherty, both 26, are on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. The election cast a shadow over Anglo-Irish relations, particularly since both countries have been seeking ways to work toward a settlement in Ulster. The Agnew-Doherty issue could draw the Republic deeper into Northern Ireland's sectarian strife. Dublin had managed to keep its distance from the furor that followed the death of Bobby Sands, a member...
...part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty much irrelevant as far as plot goes. Suffice it to say Jones travels halfway around the world, through Nepal, Egyptian bazzars, through Cairo and the Mediterranean, flung headfirst into an impossible maze of threats, subterfuge and adventure...
...mournful drama had taken on all the predictable ritual of a Passion Play. First came the terse announcement that Raymond McCreesh, 24, an inmate of the Maze Prison, had become the third Irish Republican Army hunger striker this month to take "his own life by refusing food and medical intervention," as the British government officially put it. Then came the rioting through Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry as women banged dustbin lids in the early morning darkness and gangs of youthful I.R.A. sympathizers attacked army and police patrols with stones and fire bombs. At week...