Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deficit tied the Crimson's (13-21-1, 7-13 Ivy) largest of the year, coming against a potent Husky squad (29-12) getting ready for the upcoming Mid-Atlantic playoffs. In the two teams' previous meeting of the year, in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament, Harvard outhit Northeastern nine to five and played the favored Huskies close before succumbing...
Most impressive about this production is the depth of the cast and the superbly understated direction from Travis and assistants. Nearly every aspect of Miller's potent script, major and subtle, has not only been captured but reinvigorated with a freshness that cannot help but echo its modern and contemporary parallels. Miller showed that Salem's witch hunts described the anatomy of McCarthyism in the late 40s and early 50s to the great dismay of his audiences. Today, instead of McCarthy's right-wing purges, an illiberal but leftist politics, sexual and otherwise, elicits similar dismay. Whatever other parallels come...
...germ of Danforth's dilemma is more potent today than when Miller wrote the play in 1953. Conviction and acquittal are reached solely on the basis of personal testimony, character witness, and most importantly, the social climate which dictates the popular mood under which judgments are reached. Walling effectively draws Abigail as malicious and manipulative, playing with her power as she would a dumb...
Against Wesleyan, the Crimson unleashed a potent, balanced offense and managed to keep Wesleyan's star player, a former member of the U.S. junior national team, under wraps, en route to a nine-point...
...group of prominent Catholic and evangelical Protestant leaders has pledged to reduce theological infighting, stop aggressively proselytizing each other's followers and cooperate on politically potent matters where their views converge, such as opposition to abortion...