Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remembrance takes place in war-torn Belfast, a setting that would seem to be full of ripe dramatic material about the effect of war on families. Unfortunately, the family relationships in Reid's 1984 play range from the incredibly bland to the inexplicably volatile...
...make matters worse, most of the plot elements of Remembrance seem lifted from a host of classic family dramas. There's sibling rivalry and some handy family skeletons in the closet a la O'Neill, and a web of family resentments that seem taken right out of Williams...
...synthesizing these elements, Reid doesn't bother to give his own plot any internal logic. The scenes don't build on one another; they seem to serve only to throw various characters together at random. The play's ending illustrates this lack of coherence and exposes the plot as an eccentric game of mix-and-match...
...some students said they think the reduced sentences for the men were just. "It doesn't seem like a clear case. If it were, the committee would have taken action," said sophomore Anne E. Gilson...
...keys seem to lie in the continued maturation of Gielen and Phillips. The former should move smoothly into Webster's play-making role and has all-Ivy potential. The latter will have to come back from a disappointing sophomore season and the academic problems which cut it short, but he too can be among the league elite...