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...course, this deception lies at the heart of the play--for the rest of the characters are, at best, unknown victims of this royal rouse, and hence are not given the luxury of complex reactions. Still, Christopher Randolph's Angelo is suitably cloying--an eloquent and self-righteous man, cold beneath his veneer of law and order. Michael Kaplan pulls off the role of Angelo's wizeneed adviser as well, his role as pillar of the state clear, while still maintaining a healthy sense of amused boredom with the proceedings. The women fare somewhat less well. Shelley Evans's Isabelle...
...scene is an 8,000-acre estate in Oxfordshire. Some very upper-class English have assembled to enjoy the hospitality of their host, Sir Randolph Nettleby, and three days of partying and shooting in the crisp fall weather. The month is October and the year is 1913. A novel set in this place and time automatically creates a reserve of ready-made poignancy: the insular, comfortable people of the period had no idea what the guns of August 1914 would bring. But Author Isabel Colegate does not exploit this sentiment. The coming Great War is, naturally, a fact of which...
...Randolph also expresses this sentiment, saying, "I think Harvard, like any university, would like to be able to do what it wants to do the way it wants to do it." She adds that position towards affirmative action might even be helpful to Harvard, and advocates "intelligent self-monitoring...
...have hundreds of people each hiring one somebody or two somebodies. Many of them are somewhat myopic--they're only concerned with what's happening in their own area." Randolph says, adding, "under such circumstances it's difficult to make people consciously aware of the fact that it's their responsibility to hire minorities...
...write the right letters to the right people, but the tough job is changing people's attitudes," Randolph says, adding "We're not there yet. We've just gotten far more sophisticated in our discrimination...