Word: proctoring
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Early in my first term at Harvard, my proctor told all first-years in my entryway That the Harvard police existed to take special care of us. If we ever got into trouble with the Cambridge police (the "real" police), we were to contact the Harvard police immediately. It seemed like the Harvard police were just like the Office of Career Services or the Bureau of Study Counsel: yet another agency that would give us preferential treatment and spare us from being exposed to the "real world...
Little by little the maddening effect of lies delivered with perfect sincerity works on the audience, most notable the women who repeatedly groaned in front of me. Proctor has no way to disprove the charges and no way to undo the defamation. He is like the accused who appear in the papers as certain criminals, but with a confession extracted under the extreme pressure brought to bear in emotional testimony, he merits another look. Travis' expression of this utter outrage towards Abigail's treachery, coupled with the poignancy of Proctor's impotence in defending himself with mere words against mounting...
...stark but durable set (designed by Travis) reflects the simple strength of characters like John Proctor (Michael Efron), who is turned into an enemy of the state, fighting charges of conspiring with Satan. He is clearly innocent but the lies build up against him. Out of personal vengeance, his former lover Abigail Williams (Jessica Walling) implicates him as a channeler in devils. She has begun an elaborate lie to save herself from the same charges she lodges against others...
...production's heart lies the consistently solid portrayals of Miller's panoply of good and evil. Most notable is Efron's sturdy but tainted Proctor whose one mistake returns to undo him during the witch trials months after his crime. The utter insanity of the proceedings culminates with a confession, the only legitimate one lodged in the court in months, and it proves to seal his fate. Meanwhile the perjury of others not only protects them but esteems them in the eyes of the court. Efron's simmering outrage underlines the impotent justice of Judge Danforth (Richard Gardner...
...frustration is palpable. The agony of Proctor's plight is cutting. For all his education, the black-hearted Reverend Samuel Parris (Scott Shuchart), who brags he has graduated from Harvard, shows the same can happen here, with or without "Veritas" engraved in stone over every archway. To everyone on the cast and crew, congratulations. The production is thoroughly outstanding...