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...Therein lies the weakness of the play: It demands very little from its audience. Sun criticizes teachers like Ms. Tam for entering the teaching profession with a mindset of self-sacrifice and a conviction that they can single-handedly make a difference in students’ lives. It’s a vision that is grossly ignorant of the reality of a world in which gangs murder students’ siblings and grandparents stand in for absent mothers and long-gone fathers...
...Kimmey III ’09, and Mary Eleanor Stebbins ’08) cultivates an anachronistic air throughout all its aspects, starting with the solemn playing of the British national anthem at the show’s beginning. Getting into this late-19th-century mindset is perhaps advisable if one wants to comfortably enjoy a musical whose Japanese characters have names such as Nanki...
...Once you reach that politically-incorrect mindset, the play is a delight. The story concerns a young man of the Japanese town Titipu, Nanki-Poo (Jonas A. Budris ’06), who tries to woo Yum-Yum (Annie E. Levine ’08) away from her fiancé Ko-Ko (W. Brian C. Polk ’09). Rather inconveniently, Ko-Ko also happens to be both Yum-Yum’s guardian and the Lord High Executioner of Titipu, with a quota to meet...
...huge confidence-booster going into the tournament,” Hoff said. “We have a very talented team, and we know we can play with any team in the nation—it’s all a matter of getting into the right mindset. We have the talent and the tutelage to go far if we stay focused.”—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...best saberist is a walk-on with little experience. “On the men’s side I think we had a pretty strong showing,” Itameri-Kinter said. “It was good to get our freshmen into competition, to get into the mindset, and to go back to practice with something to work for. We have our first ever Beanpot tournament coming up and now we have a little more energy, a little more fire after getting into competition.” —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached...