Word: risks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IMPOSSIBLE TO believe that a man who agonized for so many years over the state of our professional theater, who took an incredible risk in abandoning his position at the top of the critical profession to do something about saving that theater, who supervised and participated in the construction of a graduate curriculum in drama that will continue to affect schools and theaters throughout this country, who displays in his writing a passionate and unstinting dedication to the improvement of our culture--that such a man would waste as many as ten years of his life at Harvard ignoring...
...exceptions--a stagnant and unprovocative theater, and an all-out challenge to a curriculum with serious gaps. At most, it could be the beginning of a new era for the performing arts at Harvard, and a model for the teaching of drama at every school in this country. We risk little--a few productions a year in the Loeb--and stand to gain a whole lot. Let's drop our suspicions and embrace the possibilities...
...smokers who work in the asbestos, rubber, coal, textile, uranium and chemical industries, the risk of developing lung cancer is 90 times as great as the risk for nonsmokers in other fields...
...Smoking increases the risk of peptic ulcers and cancer of the larynx, mouth, bladder and pancreas...
Dining halls were not as crowded as usual because many students decided to order food for their rooms rather than risk missing a key play. "This is Super Sunday man," John P. Fishwick '79 said yesterday, adding "Do you think I'm going to have another mundane meal in the Lowell House dining hall on Super Sunday...