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Havel's English-language reputation was secured with his second play, The Memorandum, in which a society's leaders imposed an artificial language, incomprehensible to everyone but nonetheless required for all transactions. It debuted in Prague in 1965 and reached the U.S. in May 1968 in an award-winning production by Joseph Papp's prestigious Public Theater in New York City. Havel attended the premiere. Three months later, Soviet tanks rolled through the streets of Prague. The political and artistic blossoming withered and died. The bureaucrats Havel had mocked were firmly back in charge...
Thursday's meeting came soon after Thomas wrote two letters to Frome, one complaining of the loud noise from Greenough late at night and the other asking Harvard for a copy of a memorandum sent to Greenough residents reminding them to keep down noise levels, Thomas said...
...college. While working as a taxi driver and then in a brewery, he pursued his writing and in 1963 saw his first play, The Garden Party, mounted in Prague. In April 1968 Havel traveled to New York to see the Public Theater's production of his second play, The Memorandum. Four months later, the tanks rolled through Prague, and one of the new regime's first acts was to censor Havel's writings...
Even some undergraduates who otherwise seem concerned with the staff-student relationship have been unwilling to deal with the issue openly and explicitly. In an internal memorandum, Thomas J. Conally, Jr. '90 and newly-elected PBHA president Rosa A. Ehrenreich '91 argued that facts of the Reeves incident should not be openly presented in front of the entire cabinet, writing that it would be wrong to "burden Cabinet with demoralizing, unpleasant and unproductive information...
Ehrman wrote in a memorandum that she eliminated Kupelnick's position because of a departmental reorganization. But in court papers, Kupelnick claims the firing resulted from Ehrman's "personal dislike...