Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gotta love that guy," a few students say about Mr. Test, the rain-or-shine Mem Hall test proctor who is known for joking and coughing over the speakers during exams. But one student complained last week that Mr. Test maltreated him when he tried to cancel his score on a Graduate Record Exam...
...snafu in the chain of command" was partially responsible for the low temperatures which forced students to wear jackets and gloves during mid-year exams in Memorial Hall Monday and Tuesday, Bill Edwards, head proctor for exams in Memorial Hall, said yesterday...
...first time since the middle of President Conant's tenure at Harvard. Mr. Test announces he will not proctor exams this year because of the threat posed by roving Radcliffe Quad "hit squads." Test refuses to elaborate, citing national security reasons...
...evil. Most of the roles fall in groups. But whether a terrified child, fanatical judge or desperate, martyred farmer, each actor manages to create an individual personality and consistently convey it. And the other actors on whom the show's believability rides--Maja Hellmold as Abigail, Jennifer Devine as Proctor's wife Elizabeth, and Jay Mattlin as Danforth, condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest. The small room echoes, and candlesticks shake as Mattlin, in a phenomenal portrayal of conscientiousness and religious fervor turned...
Take on any level, The Crucible is a play to frighten an audience senseless. Proctor may triumph morally or he may not, as the viewer must decide. But Miller holds out no hope for the other victims of Salem's madness, nor any reassuring suggestion that that madness is confined to rage amid Salem's cold, rocky farms and Puritan gowns and breeches. In the sure hands of Diekman and company, the play doesn't need Cambridge's snowstorm, or Harvard's heritage, or even Cabot's dark wood fireplace to strike close to home...