Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realizes that something is different about this production immediately upon walking into the theater space. The first play, Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine, suposedly takes place in 1776 St. Petersburg. However, surveying the neo-60's psychedelic murals that surround the stage one could have easily mistake the set for a Bangles sound-stage. For obvious reasons, the wall-size mural of a wizarded-out Mickey Mouse on a flying broom simply does not cut it as a Russian landscape...
Much of Cook's plans follow themes that the previous arboretum director, Professor of Dendrology Peter Ashton, set during his five-year tenure. Cook points out Ashton's administration instituted the cooperative programs with Boston-area schools...
...Sargent and Olmsted took advantage of the vales and hills of the land here and set up the arboretum to fit as many different types of trees and plants as possible," Bussewitz says. "Only in a place like this can you find trees of this diversity so beautifully juxtaposed...
...commission that Bush set up to recommend changes for an ethics overhaul had called for a ban on honoraria to members of Congress for speaking engagements or similar work. Such honoraria provide thousands of dollars in outside income for senators and representatives in a system that critics, including Bush's ethics panel, contend allows for too much special interest influence on the representatives...
THERE are, of course, those who would rather you give money to the recently-resurrected Endowment for Divestiture (E4D) This is, in some ways, even worse than giving money to Harvard directly. This mind-set of giving Harvard money is still created, but it is wrapped up in the pseudo-issue of divestiture. Supporters for E4D should realize that their $25,000 provides not a single ounce of leverage on the University...