Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than any watershed historical monument or poetic irony, the most important lesson I learned at Harvard was taught to me during a groggy morning lecture in Memorial Hall, coincidentally around the same time I decided to become a Big Brother. Sharing the spiritual verse of Dorothy Day, Professor Robert Coles '50 sat humbly at the front of the stage and whispered: "There is a call to us, a call of service--that we join with others to try to make things better in this world." It was, therefore, not surprising to see these inspiring words on the back cover...
...Thomas Lanier Williams, the playwright's full name. He will be both narrator and player, providing "truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." The message: we will be witnesses to Williams' personal history as well as to dramatic fiction. The fusion results, of course, in a richly poetic play about three people who are trapped by circumstance and one another. Amanda Wingfield, an erstwhile Southern belle, clings to the past. Her daughter Laura is a physical and emotional cripple who can bear to do nothing more challenging than tend her collection of miniature glass animals. Laura's brother...
...Love again, wanking at half past three." In Unrequited Love, Freudian Psychology and Other Small Tragedies, Jose Guzman, as both writer and director, takes a relatively conventional approach to the subject. He gives us, as the title of his play suggests, unrequited love and a bit of psychology. Alternately poetic and awkward in its linguistic sensibility...
While we at Dartboard never feign omniscience (or, at least, seldom), we are pretty sure that Dylan R. Nieman '98 is not the most popular first-year on campus. Oh sure, he's got a cool name--like real poetic and all. But last Friday was not Dylan's most shining moment...
...canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose, here he leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates...