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...Dudley House Drama Society is not without guts. It takes a certain amount of courage for a house to attempt a Shakespeare production in the first place, and to take a stab at the often treacherous Merchant of Venice requires valor well beyond the ordinary. The astonishing thing is that those Dudley people just don't give a damn. They go right out onto that tiny Lehman Hall stage and play The Merchant of Venice. They seize the work by the lapels, shake it for nearly all they can hope to get out of it and throw what they find...
...weeks would be reading period proper. Students would have to make up their minds about courses earlier than in the past, perhaps after the first week of reading period and would do so on the basis of their observation of the lecturer, the reading lists, the synopses, an actual stab at the reading and perhaps even the Confi Guide! Students wishing to drop courses later in the year would be permitted to take make-up exams...
...three hockey seasons have done little to disprove him. While B.U. has risen to the top and stayed there, Harvard has been wallowing in mediocrity the past two winters, and there's little reason to expect a reversal of these trends in the near future. The Crimson's last stab at the top, in fact, was an ECAC semifinal date with the Terriers in March of '76. Following an 8-4 B.U. cakewalk, O'Callahan capped the evening with another hat trick of a statement: "Harvard's nice, but B.U.'s great." On that night, and in this sport, there...
...mechanics of entering and controlling "space pods," one-man space ships launched from the larger craft, may emphasize plot action but only at the expense of the eerie and important continuity of technology that dominates most of the film. 2001 is, among other things, a slow-paced intricate stab at creating an aesthetic from natural and material things we have never seen before: the film's opening, "The Dawn of Man," takes place four million years ago (with a cast composed solely of australopithecine, tapirs, and a pre-historic leopard), and a quick cut takes us past the history...
Every so often, TV ups and breaks a precedent. This season, spurred by the expanding market for specials, a few producers are taking a stab at new subjects. Trouble is, they try so hard to be original that the result is often a case of overdoing the underdone...