Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might be a mistake to fault Alice for, at times, being unintelligible. It is a spectacle performance: there is a large cast, a staggering number of roles and surreal lighting which adds to the whole production. The set is well done, the costumes are beautiful, and the actors give lively performances. But there are problems with this drama's assumption of its role as social or political criticism, which would necessarily call for more cohesion and iintelligibility...
...teams will be participating in a five-match round-robin, but for all practical purposes, it is a three-team battle. Brown (ranked 13th in the country), UMass (ranked 17th), and Harvard (ranked 19th) will all be shooting for the crown which will determine the all-important number-one seeding for the New England Championships in two weeks...
...seeding takes on added significance when one scans the East Coast water polo picture--three good teams; only two qualify for the Eastern Championships; number-one seed need only beat a weak-sister number-four seed to gain a berth in the Easterns...
Spence, who has spent the bulk of his five-and-a-half year tenure as dean on issues of faculty staffing, is quietly preparing to revamp the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). And he says he's convinced that increasing the number of senior faculty and bolstering the chances that junior faculty will receive tenure here are the keys to his plans for the venerable...
...addition to increasing interaction between professors and students, adding faculty could lessen the teaching loads of some graduate students. New Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brendan A. Maher says this could be critical to reversing the decline in the number of Ph.Ds produced by graduate schools...