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Life definitely has a different atmosphere now since I have been playing ball. The days seem warmer, the breeze gentler, and the people all around are happy. Harvard is no longer a somber amalgamation of gray academics, but now it's sunny athletics...
...With its somber tone, gritty diction and unglamorous portrayal of working class America, The Woolgatherer, a play by William Mastrosimone, could easily be mistaken for a play by Tennesee Williams. This two person play, which takes place in the dark and dingy apartment of the lead female, Rose (Miriam R. Asnes ’02), is a slightly unsubtle mixture of A Street Car Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. Through its examination of two people on the fringe of society, The Woolgatherer attempts to deal with the inherently human condition of isolation. Rose, a poverty stricken, single woman, combines...
Although the tone of the event was somber and much anger was expressed towards rape assailants and the institutions that victims said they believed had failed to prosecute them, the general atmosphere of the evening was one of healing and education...
There was another reason for cheer in the midst of sometimes somber talk-the 26 members of the new Harvard chapter of the HSF also received their scholarship checks last night...
They did not wear saffron robes, nor was their desperate act immortalized in a photograph of bright flames engulfing stoic martyrs. Instead, they were wrapped in somber padded jackets, and their fiery protest was captured only on a grainy T.V. clip. But like the self-immolating monks of Saigon nearly four decades ago, the five believers who quietly doused themselves with gasoline in Tiananmen Square last week seemed to be lighting a torch for their spiritual survival...