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HARVARD COMMENCEMENT guests, you are about to witness something remarkable. You may never again hear speeches as special as the ones you will hear today. Now I won't guarantee that the speakers' delivery will be especially skillful, their ideas especially trenchant or their wit especially sparkling. Hell, I won...
Early in his career as a Harvard administrator, Bok became known for his skillful handling of student protesters. He is frequently credited with having helped calm the campus unrest of the 1960s and early 1970s.
A. . .My Name is Alice: Jennifer Giering's decidedly non-experimental production featured energetic staging, sweet and simple dancing and Larry O'Keefe's skillful piano accompaniment. No voice stood out, but the ensemble blended well and brought out the humor in an entertaining, though hardly brilliant, script. Given the...
And it's been hell ever since, aided and abetted by snide, pejorative language. From Latin comes the disapproving sinister (on the left, inauspicious) and the flattering dexterous (on the right, skillful). The Spanish word for left-handed, zurdo, means malicious. If you are gauche (left) in France, you are...
Dramatically, Kim's lover Chris, his wife Ellen and his friend John are much less important than the Vietnamese, and the action is largely confined to Asia. The play's real subject is what "they" -- Third World people, Asian people -- think of the basically Western "us" that is presupposed to...