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...means is Ibsen's Hedda Gabler a mellow mood piece. It ought to leave you in a state of shock, for as the last line of the play states, "Normal people don't do such things...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Hedda Strong | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...person, Wilson seems as gentle and contemplative as his plays. He frets about a "whole generation ((of black youths)) that has not learned to read," but offers neither sweeping solutions nor invective. He was not always so mellow. Drawn to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, he helped found a volunteer troupe in his native Pittsburgh that mounted the incendiary works of LeRoi Jones. "I tried to write myself, but I wasn't any good at dialogue," he says -- a surprising judgment for a playwright whose characters speak with color and dialectal authenticity. Within a few years Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Exorcising The Demons of Memory | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Entitled "Fantasia: Al Kever Favi," Elkies piece was described by Michael E. Flexer '89, one of the 13 cellists in the choir, as "mellow and moody, with a deep quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cello Concert to Feature Graduate Student's Work | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

...admit, I exhibit this tendency myself--I think everyone at Harvard does. We're all overacheivers, after all. My being tense means that I need calm people around to show me when I get out of hand. But in an environment defined by anality, I end up being the mellow one, trying to exert a stabilizing influence on the basket cases I feel constantly surrounded...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: A Freudian Interpretation of Harvard Life | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...After the embarrassing Morning Program, the new show has been a welcome addition just by looking normal. Though it is still fishing for its personality, Co-Anchors Kathleen Sullivan and Harry Smith are smooth and genuine (he more than she). The news content is relatively high, the tone comfortably mellow and the audience slightly larger. The chief problem: luring star-caliber guests away from the more popular Today and Good Morning America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Back on The March at CBS News | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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