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Also debuting on the course list is a seminar by 1995 Nobel laureate and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney...
...SHOW WHAT COMPUTERS CANNOT DO, match one with a poet. If the machine has any intelligence, it will say nolo contendere. The computer should compete with Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate poet, not with a chess master like Kasparov. This doesn't mean that Heaney has a "soul" and the machine does not. It means that nature's thinkers--humans, with their art, humor and compassion--can be mimicked by science but never matched. Not now. Not ever. DANIEL C. MAGUIRE Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Tonight's production is Seamus Heaney's only play, "The Cure at Troy," written in 1991. After the Ex's expressly experimental purpose, the students have trussed up the Nobel laureate's adaptation of Sophocles' "Philoctetes" with smartly tailored costumes, special effects and a few playful hypotheticals all their own: With scripts at hand would the Greek Chorus, like the Three Fates, look more like directors than a traditional chorus merely commenting on the action? Could you make an Odysseus speech look extemporaneous if the chorus frantically flipped through their scripts looking for lines that weren't there...
...LONDON, THE HOUSE OF COMMONS was hushed as Seamus Mallon rose to speak. "This," he proclaimed, "is the moment of truth for all paramilitary groupings. They have to make a choice: Will they join together in making peace, or will they isolate themselves?" Coming from Mallon, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, which speaks for the majority of Catholics in Northern Ireland, it was a challenge the Irish Republican Army could ill afford to ignore...
...Last year he was invited to the White House, but this year his reception in Washington will be low-key. The Clinton Administration has forbidden him to raise funds. Until he has succeeded in leading his friends in the I.R.A. down the road to peace, Adams will remain--as Seamus Mallon suggests--quite isolated...