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...John N. Orsini '98, the executive director of SCAS, said the program marked a movement toward the completion of SCAS' and PBHA's mission to provide both social service and social action to the community...
...Social service is to provide service to those who are disadvantaged...social action is to change the structure," Orsini said. "We feel this is a strong way to bring the social action component back to PBHA...
...doesn't really bother me that the classes are big, because Professor Sandel is able to encourage class participation," said course member John Orsini...
...competent, the positive exception being Justin Levitt, who makes the most of the play's hilarious characterization of Emperor Joseph II as a benign fool. More troublesome are the Venticelli, played by Howie Axelrod and Eleanor Kincaid, and the three nobles, Baron von Strack (Alfred di Venturi), Count Orsini-Rosen-berg (Peter Galatin) and Baron von Swieten (Arzhang Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since minor disputes and even neutral exchanges...
...Orsini's circle, he had met, talked and argued with philosophers, architects and theologians. He had been treated like a man of ideas, as in fact he was. In Spain, he found artists were rated not much above artisans, paid by the square foot. He would neither tolerate nor accept it. An intellectual artist, he demanded to be treated as such. He also rebelliously demanded to be paid as such (that is to say, more), and for all his life in Toledo he was constantly in litigation over the price of his paintings...