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This year's opera is "The Turn of the Screw" by Benjamin Britten, a 20th century chamber opera based on the eponymous Henry James novella. While the audience may sense the fragrance of lemon-sole with breadcrumbs in the Lowell production--probably not an olfactory effect Britten originally called for--"Turn of the Screw" is spatially well-suited to the cramped conditions of the Lowell House dining hall, says Bennett...

Author: By M. ELISABETH Bentel, | Title: Lowell Dining Hall Turns into Opera House | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

Both Bowdoin and Colby were playing their final contests of the year, resulting in some high emotions. "Since it was their last games, it was great to screw them up," Crimson Tri-Captain Genie Simmons said...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Undefeated in Maine | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...number of problems exist with the current proposal, most particularly in the way it penalizes students who want to experiment by taking five courses in a semester or by taking a course in an entirely novel field. The College must determine a way to give experimenters room to screw up in a course without ruining their chances for honors--perhaps, as Professor of Astrophysics David I ayzer suggests, by making only three-fourths of all courses count for honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Tough | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

...name. Many people now think of hackers as pests or perhaps even criminals. But the hackers them selves claim they are getting a bum rap from movies and newspapers. Says Bill Burns, an industrial psychologist and part-time hacker: "We are the victims of a major press screw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Let Us Now Praise Famous Hackers | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...given new urgency to a task that preoccupies Western experts on Soviet affairs: interpreting the current murky status of the Kremlin leadership. Says a top U.S. analyst in Washington: "We've got to get a better fix on who is running the show. This ignorance could really screw up our decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Running the Show? | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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