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...debate over the future of golf, as in so many sports at present, excitement over progress competes with reverence for the past. At Augusta, though, it's no contest - nostalgia has been the driving force behind the changes to the course, and also explains the tournament's wider efforts to foster a throwback feel. Part of the appeal of any sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal...
...Calaban, he says to the audience, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” his raised eyebrow is not remotely necessary. This is simply one example where the play tries too hard to be funny and ends up failing to portray the subtle themes present in the original text. Benjamin Evett’s superb and intricate performance as Calaban is particularly wasted, as the deeper issues behind his character are not explored. When the savage licks the drunken Stephano’s boots as a mark of his devotion to his new master...
...Harold Pinter’s “Old Times.” These white beams seem more and more like the bars of a jail cell as the play progresses, trapping the characters in the nightmares that are their own lives. Perception becomes reality as past and present blend together in a battle of words and memories. Pinter’s play provides complicated source material, and this production—executive produced by Simon J. Williams ’09—successfully presents the big picture, despite technical inconsistencies in the acting.The play reveals the undeclared psychological...
...some wonder whether the College will ever return to accepting transfer applications. In recent years, Princeton University suspended applications from transfer students for a two-year period, only to extend the suspension into the present...
...lives. Yet after the disease was diagnosed as the cause of her repeated nose bleeds in 2002, Sébire rejected proposals of surgical intervention - and subsequently turned down the palliative services and pain-masking medication doctors offered. It was only after her tumors had grown too large and present on her brain that Sébire's determination to beat the disease on her own morphed into her final campaign to obtain legally permitted euthanasia from the same doctors whose treatment she'd originally rebuffed. That has caused considerable concern among observers and ethicists who note that neither...