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From a podium atop the stage of Sanders Theatre, Dean of the College, Evelynn M. Hammonds jokingly greeted her audience as a class—yet the seats were filled not with students but with parents visiting for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. In her welcome remarks on Friday, Hammonds paralleled her first year as dean with the novel experiences of being a freshman. A primary focus of her address was increasing faculty-student involvement. “Working with an esteemed scholar is the type of learning we ought to be facilitating,” Hammonds said. Within this...
With the support of her fans, who donated $17,000 for her new CD, it’s not surprising that Smith describes Pauley as a commanding presence on stage...
...pure, honest theater”—to a realized vision, to a new vision of reality itself. Actors’ daily performances take place under Caden’s watchful direction and the concave glass ceiling of the enormous warehouse he’s purchased to stage the piece. The set design becomes more elaborate as time goes on, evolving along with the piece into a façade-metropolis, where Caden retreats from the outside world. He even finds an actor to play himself.Kaufman’s work has always defied classification. The internalized aspects...
...Forbidden City Concert Hall this month, American pianist Murray Perahia was performing a selection of classical compositions. He held the audience fast as he moved from Beethoven to Mozart to Bach, but he truly blew the doors off the place when he reached his Chopin. As he left the stage after his last listed piece, some of the audience members - unfamiliar with the tradition of the encore - left the hall. Perahia returned to play some more, and the remaining audience not only applauded, but let out a full-throated, almost primal whoop, one that seemed equal parts surprise, delight...
...figuring out how to wean the world off the flush handle took center stage. Though the common flush toilet has remained largely the same since it's invention in 1596, the world it inhabits has changed drastically. City populations have mushroomed, sewers have become overburdened and water has become scarcer. Now, the flushing loo - that human innovation that lifted the industrialized world out of its own dirt, cholera and dysentery - is quickly becoming one of the more egregious instruments of waste in this time of acutely finite resources. "The world can't sustain this toilet," says Jack Sim, the founder...