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Leaders of Tomorrow stumbles a little over the complex network between reality and representation it brings to the stage, but it accurately portrays the mazes of self-discovery that students undergo on the walkways between classrooms. It is a portrait, rather than an analysis, and as such, it towers above the warmed-over synthetic fare of Lopez and others. By framing the Crimson quest for self-understanding, the show, in its introspection, rejects myths about Harvard cast upon it and stands, naked, under the tree of knowledge...
...park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War. Walt Whitman wrote of soldiers dying there between the rows of inventions. The Phillips Collection at 21st and Q is still a great place to be alone with a painting...
Justice William O. Douglas was a vain man; the final evidence was the old liberal's insistence that his 81 years of life called for a two-volume autobiography totaling 860 pages. James F. Simon's realistic portrait spares readers some of the great Justice's lengthy lecture on the evils of McCarthyism and his expansive observations on six Presidents. The space saved is devoted in part to Douglas' personal life, including the rather novel relationships with his final three wives, whom Douglas neglected to mention in his autobiography. Clearly, it is not only soap-opera...
Ronald Reagan's student supporters, many garbed in t-shirts emblazoned with a crossed-out portrait of Karl Marx, kicked their celebration off with a high-decibel recording of "Midnight Train From Georgia...
Nina J. Gardner '82, president of the Democratic Club, wore a t-shirt with Ronald Reagan's portrait behind bars and had tears in her eyes. "Why is it that our leaders always give their best speeches after they've lost?" she asked mournfully...