Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written in 1904, Summerfolk was prescient about the 1905 revolution in Russia, which was a dress rehearsal for the cataclysm that brought the Bolsheviks to power twelve years later. Reflecting the boredom and despair of the Russian middle class, it is Gorky's most Chekhovian work. It follows, without...
Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky leans back in a chair in his University Hall office, props his feet up on another chair, and smiles.
Perhaps all this was inevitable: those existential props, the Man Between and the Border, need a fresher approach than laconic narrative, no matter how charged with significance. Hemenway's best passages remain celebrations of the ordinary: meals, lovemaking, conversations with friends. For him, as for so many contemporary American...
While Lowell House's Dining Hall is not the atmosphere most conductive to an operatic production, the modest set with few props and simple staging enables the cast to move around easily, focusing our attention on their voices and gestures, rather than unnecessary production, as the cast deftly conveys the...
There also is the realization that as the electronic ringmasters took over politics, the people of Iowa became little more than props in a national entertainment. The lowans choose the delegates but somehow that role seems to diminish next to the self-important punditry of network anchors and political consultants...