Word: morasses
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...begins and ends the Quincy House Theatrical's production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City. We start off and conclude with the same event. But we must concentrate hard to determine what happens in the interim. Throughout the morass of plot, we have to distinguish the various lines and hope they don't get hopelessly tangled...
...tightrope carrying the past on one shoulder and fear of our enemies on the other." Viewers, after being subjected to so many pathetic widows, arrogant generals, bombed buses and armed children, might have drawn a much simpler, less judicious conclusion: Why get more deeply involved in such a morass...
Whether it be in the lecture hall sharing his morass of knowledge on insects, or in the laboratory he developed encouraging and supporting student research, or at his daily afternoon was sporting intellectual dilemmas ranging from international politics to the reproductive habits of gypsy moths, Carroll M. Williams, Busey Professor of Biology, is a Harvard institution. Munching on a supply of hot peppers while sitting in his office, he displays in a distinctive Southern drawl his extensive repertoire of collected facts and stories spanning his 45 years at the University. He recaptures, as if they occurred yesterday, the lives...
...BOILING CAULDRON of tortured artists. Franz Kafka must surely hold a place of honor. Born at a bad time, in a worse place, and raised by a middle-class family that had little use for writers. Kafka spent his life floundering in a morass of guilt and self-hatred. Never quite convinced of his right to exist, he wore himself down with ceaseless self-dissection, suffocated in an office job the talent he knew he had, and often tried to sabotage his most precious relationships. Although he never formally committed suicide-a failure he gloated over with particular relish...
...times, cash registers are jingling as loud as ever at most bookstores this season. Things have gotten so jolly at nearby book stores it's easy to get waylaid by bad books on the way to the check-out. What follows is a guide to some of the modern morass of printed matter, as well as a sampling of which works qualify as more defensible acquisitions...