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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GIVE THEM. For even those actors who never sinned on the stage before don't stand a chance with this cardboard American morality play, Dark of the Moon. Not a chance, "I reckon" (to quote the pet phrase of the playwrights) with all the "fers, plumbs and cottonwood-blooming times" and a script that should burn in the fires of hell. And while they wallow in this sty of Appalachia, adultery and brimstone (and anything else moral that you happen to think of), do not spurn them for their transgressions, for the performance was near as good what mortals might...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beyond Redemption | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...human and the gal he witched who weren't true." But, as the good Lord says, those who know not of what they speak should shut the hell up. Who, after all, are these men, Howard Richardson and William Berney, who pervert morality onto a framework that cannot stand its weight? It's an exhausted tale of witches and lovers and hillbillies, a sinnin' and a rollin' in the hay and a borin' you to tears. And you the congregation knows what will happen and have no reason to care...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beyond Redemption | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...Stand up and purge yourself of your sins, director Leo-Pierre Roy. Many in the actors' congregation have told us tales of woe, of low morale. Your failure to inspire your flock is all too evident. You have broken the first of the commandments, for the play drags in many places and you have used a moaning chorus to create "atmosphere" where there is none. Your blocking is unimaginative and you have lost your sense of transition somewhere along the road. By the time we sit through five songs, the heavy-handed confessions in the revival scene and a predictable...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beyond Redemption | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard probably won't be able to dodge a stand on the nuclear question forever. Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), will face quite a few shareholder resolutions this spring from investors alarmed by the mishap at Three Mile Island...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard's Nuclear Ties | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...Kirkland goal line stand early in the fourth quarter prevented what could have been the winning touchdown. Eliot had possession of the ball in a first and goal situation at the three, but a strong K-House defense repulsed the threat...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Quincy, Kirkland Post Wins | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

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