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John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions who moonlights as a Pennypacker proctor, attributes the change in attitude to a greater degree of communication among the dorm's residents. "It's much different from last year, when some people on the floor didn't even know each other's names," he says. But at the core of this greater openness, Reardon recognizes the importance of the women's role. He notes with relief that the co-ed environment has acted as a civilizing influence, making it easier for students to meet each other while simultaneously taming the Pennypacker night...
...freshman proctor, who wished to remain unidentified, said that she has trouble arranging weekend meetings with her proctees because they are all eating in different places on the weekend...
Actually, Joe just thinks it was for two weeks that he stayed awake. His proctor in Weld South told him it was possible to go to sleep dream you're not sleeping, so that when you wake up, it seems like you've been fully conscious the whole time. Re-evaluating his opening statistic after learning this, Joe realized "I was never really sure whether I was sleeping or not." Anyhow, the uncertainty was reason enough to drive him into University Health Services for sleeping pills, which brought on the long-awaited blissful slumber...
...trouble starts with the role of John Proctor, the farmer who embodies Miller's moral viewpoint and becomes the tragic hero of the play. The part is here entrusted to Don Murray, who does make an earnest attempt. He starts off all right; but as soon as the role begins to make heavier demands, his shortcomings are evident. In his second-act colloquy with the Reverend Hale, Proctor has an exceedingly important remark: "Is the accuser always holy now?" Murray hurries over this so that the idea is all but lost...
Maria Tucci is much better as Proctor's wife Elizabeth, who at a crucial moment tries to help her adulterous husband by telling her first lie, when he is counting on her to be truthful as usual. And she makes the play's final moments moving as her cheeks course with tears in a combination of sadness, joy, and pride. Tovah Feldshuh is properly sexy as the teenage girl Abigail, who accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft in hopes of getting Proctor for herself...