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...addition to this week's activities. Harvard A.I. has been working since September to arrange the release on Jeza Szocs, a Romanian poet arrested for the publication of an underground Hungarian journal. The club has also sponsored several films and community speakers to educate Harvard students Yamada said...
...assembly--Pearl took time off and went to Europe. She "had had it" with Harvard. But she gained a new appreciation for the United States. She met Irish Catholics trying to subsist on the tired soil west of the Shannon River. She slipped a Newsweek to an information hungry Romanian school teacher. A man poured a bucket of Sangria over her head in Pamplona. It was time to come home...
Director Andre Serban clearly deserves much of the credit for the success. A noted Romanian director, Serban has long sought to create communication that is pure theatre, Independent of language. In Sganarelle, the words become almost incidental, the actors rushing through their lines as if eager to dispense with them as quickly as possible. And properly so, for the real humor of the show results from the gestures and grimaces set in play. The show succeeds on a complex level, establishing a mood that goes beyond words to reach a solid core of humor...
After the Romanians are losing by a large margin, though, one gets angry enough to slug a Czech, who in turn grabs the Romanian's stick. The Czech goes to the penalty box. There he is, a real live Czech sitting just a few feet away. "Take a picture, take a picture of him." So I do. It's embarrassing; after all he's not an animal...
Georgescu's message to Romanian intellectuals is "to speak out: intellectuals have the duty to speak up when they are there." There is a faint hope given by a few courageous dissidents, but in general the prospects for changes are just plain bad. "The only way is to leave," he concludes...