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...Jason R. Stevenson '00 and Brooke M. Ellison '00 will give the two Harvard Orations and Jacob F. Lentz '00 has been selected to give the Ivy Oration--a comical speech that "tends to absurdity and ridiculousness," Krebs said...
...Stevenson said that his Harvard Oration "looks at today and into the future. It has a lot about the Yard...
...story of Cleopatra seems tailor-made for the ballet, with its epic themes of lust, love, empire, political conspiracy and tragedy. Created in conjunction with the Houston Ballet and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Cleopatra does not shy away from any of these large themes. Choreographer Ben Stevenson, of the Houston Ballet, brings to the production much of the dramatic flair that characterized his staging of Dracula in Boston last spring, but Cleopatra ultimately rests on the skill of its dancers, and as such emerges as the superior production...
...real strength of the performance, however, lies in the male dancers. Laszlo Berdo's Caesar is powerful and stoic, and Yury Yanowsky's Marc Antony produced audible gasps from the audience. Stevenson's choreography provides ample room for these two dancers, as well as the male members of the corps de ballet, to exhibit their considerable talent. The highlight of the ballet comes when the dancers celebrate the arrival of Cleopatra in Rome, and the male dancers achieve a balance of athleticism and lyricism that is truly remarkable...
...listened to this argument - actually, just a glimmering throwaway line - during a forum of presidential historians last night at the New York Public Library, an assemblage that included Lyndon Johnson's biographer Robert Caro; Edmund Morris, who did Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and Jean Baker, biographer of Adlai Stevenson...