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...more eager than we are at Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) to perform renovations of the dining facilities at Dunster, Mather and Quincy Houses (Editorial, “Moli??re’s Dining Halls,” Jan. 13). When we began the renovation process, we set a goal of completing these ambitious and comprehensive guttings and rebuildings of our outdated serveries by Fiscal Year 2009 (summer of 2008). In short, we planned to do 12 dining halls in ten years (Annenberg had already undergone recent construction). We are on schedule for completing this work as planned...
...French playwright Moli??re wrote that “it is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.” Over three centuries and several thousand miles away, the Harvard students who are bombarded daily with a plethora of fine words—including, from time to time, Moli??re’s own—are still waiting for administrators to digest his message...
...least that HUDS can do until the renovations are finally completed is to end the unfair interhouse restrictions and allow all students to eat where they will most enjoy their meals. After all, without good food, Harvard students, like Moli??re, know that eventually even the finest of words becomes stale...
...fact, the entire production shares this problem. David P. Gordon’s opulent set design, rich in golds and imperial blues, wants to be reminiscent of the grand production Moli??re’s comedy first received at the Palais-Royal in 1668. But its inspiration seems to lie more in the gaudy extravagance of Broadway hits like The Lion King than in the theater of 17th century France. When seen in combination with Linda Cho’s stylized costuming and Frances Aronson’s over-reliance on primary colors in lighting the play, one might...
...center. Informed by Zeus of his nefarious doings and of Alcmena’s pregnancy with a child named Hercules, the couple end the play bewildered and dejected. But given the shortcomings of the preceding two hours, this ending doesn’t serve as a contrast to Moli??re’s comedic treatment of the subject matter. Instead, it embodies the audience’s reaction all along...