Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Neil L. Rudenstine said the breakfast was to express "sorrow for a loss, and gratitude for a life that was incalculably great...
...sense it was a natural outgrowth of his biblical scholarship; one cannot believe in a literal interpretation of Scripture and dismiss the role that angels play throughout it. Furthermore, for many theologians the belief fulfills the promise of a merciful God. In the face of war, hunger, AIDS, drugs, sorrow and fear, only a force more potent than any earthly power could provide peace. "These are desperate times," says Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston College. "People seek supernatural solutions to their problems. We want to reassure ourselves of our spiritualism...
...soon a battle begins between the life-size Nutcracker and the Mouse-King. Many surprises and creative additions strengthen this central Battle Scene. Mice jump from the stage out into the audience. A dramatic pause after the death of the Mouse-King adds drama and a touch of sorrow, followed by the comic relief of Red Cross arm-banded mice attempting CPR and carrying him away on a stretcher. The battle itself is fought with gigantic forks instead of swords, and cheese bits serve as grenades. A child dressed as a gingerbread cookie gets her arm bitten...
...bleaker one. While Lughnasa portrayed in poignant detail the hard times of the five Mundy sisters in rural Ireland in 1937 and foreshadowed still worse things to befall them, the dominant memory it left was of the explosive eruption into revelry cited in the title. Amid reasons for sorrow, the Mundy women held onto joy. The three couples in Tennessee who come to the same lonely rural spot for a birthday outing seem defeated by ordinary travails. The one vital outburst, a passage from Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata played on the accordion, expresses rage as much as rapture and comes...
Though the play maintains a tension between black humor and heartfelt sorrow, the production at times seems amateurish. This is due in part to the unfortunate attempt to create some form of a British accent, which makes Green Fingers resemble a well-acted high-school performance. And although the actors interact genuinely with each other, their movements on stage are often stiff, focusing on one repeated body movement to emphasize what the character is supposed to represent...