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...another degree. For this is the play that got away from Brecht the play that unlike The Threepennv Opera Or The Good-Women of Setzuan, transcended Brecht's theories of theater and look on a life of its own. The final scene in which Mother Courage's mute daughter climbs to a rooftop and beats a drum to warn a nearly town of the approaching enemy can be one of the most moving scenes in post-modern drama. Because of its emotional force it almost disproves its creator's theories In that way it could be much like...
...pursuing an unestablished field that fascinates them. Even the amount of time it takes to coordinate a Special Concentration may tip the scales in a student's mind, and may even make the whole program unworkable. Such dangers are inherent in the setup; by making that setup the only mute to an alternative program, and then--realistically--discouraging or rejecting so many applicants. Harvard has effectively divested itself of any responsibility for addressing individual academic needs...
Like mausoleums of a passing age, they stand shuttered and empty. They are the padlocked steel mills of what has come to be known grimly as the American Rust Bowl, and from the rail sidings of East Chicago to the icy waterways of western New York State, they offer mute testimony to the industrial damage that has been done by the longest economic decline in half a century...
...last summer, that highly critical, frequently rather parochial audience gave him a loud, long ovation. His face flushed with excitement, his eyes gleaming, Levine came onstage slowly, basking in the bravos. Shyly bowing from the waist, his hands resting on his thighs, his head bobbing up and down in mute response, he seemed more the precocious pupil being celebrated by his schoolmates than the architect of an international musical triumph...
...almost staggering chemistry. While the abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...