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...assumption is often that the woman was drunk and the man was not at fault," she said, adding that the victim is often blamed for appearing promiscuous or not putting up a fight. "In the face of general and even legal acceptance of violence against women, we need to work to change attitudes and laws, and individual awareness is especially important...
...Michael Griggs, Technical Director of the Loeb Drama Center, the most impressive aspects of Zellmann-Rohrer’s lighting career are the sheer quantity of productions on which he has served and the calm with which he manages his responsibilities. During the last four years, Zellmann-Rohrer often has worked on multiple shows at the same time, and yet, Griggs explains, “He never complains. He’ll often be the only one in the theater, fixing everything quietly until it’s finished, and then it just seems to happen like magic...
This awareness of his age, his accomplishments, as well as his shortcomings recurs throughout the collection. Williams’ reflections on his work more often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have passed through my own golden age and not even known I was there?” What is more, Williams acknowledges the wide breadth of his literary knowledge, but also hints that such erudition is not necessarily satisfying or comforting. In the same poem, he writes...
...Wait,” Williams does not limit himself to a single theme or style. He meditates on subjects ranging from war to desire, from nature to literature. While he often employs the long, fluid lines characteristic of so much of his work, as in his poems “Brain” and “Apes,” he also tries out more chiseled, succinct forms in poems such as “Vertigo” and “Rats.” Even as he displays his virtuosity as a writer, however, Williams remains humble...
...hard to imagine this wise voice as a wayward student, in one poem, Williams disparagingly describes the self of his school days: “I was an indifferent student; I fidgeted, / daydreamed, didn’t do my homework, didn’t / as my teachers often said, apply myself...