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WHETHER INACCESSIBILITY is a weakness in such a show seems rather a moot question; the debate this spring may be waged in the Loeb box office, but presumably no audience reserves the right to be conventionally enthralled or illuminated, as long as a production can pique the senses and stay uneasily in the mind as do Woyzeck's visually masterful sequences. The way Jamie Hanes, as Woyzeck, stares defeatedly at a surrealistically huge bowl of peas, munches some, then bows his head in acceptance and dread, carries its power with it; marooned in cellophone wastes with his huge silhouette thrown...
Although such a scene could occur in a real session of the United States Supreme Court. Last night's drama was actually a semifinal round of the 68th Ames Moot Court Competition, which pits two teams of second-year Law School students against one another in a test of courtroom skills...
...oppose Soviet expansion and his authority to negotiate realistically had been undermined by Watergate. Whether our East-West policy was doomed in any event by the dynamics of the Soviet system or by the inherent ambiguity of our conception will be debated for a long time. The issue became moot when the Executive power in the U.S. collapsed...
...Freischütz, or the full flowering of the twelve-tone system with Schoenberg's Op. 25 Piano Suite. Endings, however, are more elusive. When precisely did the Baroque conclude? Did the symphony die with Brahms or Mahler, or is it still a vital form? These are moot questions...
Supreme Court Justice SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR has refused an invitation to deliver the 1982 Class Day address but will preside over the Law School's Ames Moot Court competition next fall...