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Chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 described Coleman, who teaches the Historical Studies B-06, “The Roman Games,” as “demanding, lively, and enthusiastic,” and credited her for personally reading and commenting on every paper from her class of approximately 150 students...
...most recently, “The Taming of the Shrew.” The 2002 production of “Julius Caesar” featured a would-be emperor who died of a paper-cut, while Brutus and Antony played rocks-paper-scissors for sovereignty of the Roman Empire...
Mysterious potions, a family torn apart, and the courtesan next-door all play a part in one Roman slave’s quest for freedom this Thursday at the Agassiz Theater. Despite the musical’s sometime-serious undertones, foppery and frivolity will abound at the Harvard Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment (STAGE) production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum...
This derivative of a play by Plautus continues a fine tradition of Roman ribaldry. It’s similar to the recent Harvard production of the comedist’s “Mostellaria:” the two cover comparable ground of debauchery and deception, although “Forum” captures the spirit of the Roman playwright with a lighter comedic touch. The play’s exaggerated action and sheer silliness lend it a certain tongue-in-cheek tone, which alternately creates and defuses tension each moment...
...that does not doubt its teachings because of their declining popularity. Churches that are not demanding, either philosophically or materially, do not do well in terms of attracting or retaining members. As Michael Barone pointed out recently in Time magazine, the denominations that are growing or maintaining their membership, Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism, and Mormonism, are exceedingly demanding of their members, while the denominations that ask little of their believers and are (rightly or wrongly) seen to blow with the societal windslike Episcopalism, Methodism, and Presbyterianismhave been declining precipitously...