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...great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections for the off-Broadway program are drawn from Yeats and Synge, Beckett and Joyce, as well as others; they all mirror women as seen through Irish eyes...
...Miss McKenna has a magnetic personality, and she knows how to populate a stage singlehanded. At the same time, she releases the audience's imaginative powers. What animates her performance is that she so obviously loves her people deep down in her bones. Delivering a ritual lament in Gaelic, she creates an atmosphere of runic awe; her body becomes a crucible of Irish antiquity and suffering...
...MARC McKENNA...
Unlike the Task Force, which has a specific purpose, Room 13 began with very open-ended objectives. Margaret S. McKenna '70, who set up Room 13, said that only one in 20 calls to Room 13 is related to drugs...
Room 13 may double its staff and stay open all night if the need is demonstrated. "I don't know how many people will call," said McKenna. "This place is so lonely and people's pride is pretty ingrained. But there are people around this university who care, and we're trying to demonstrate that...