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Since the early days of the Republic, America has been a seafaring nation. The powerful rigging of our Constitutional ideals have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a concern for the public good and a charitable spirit of volunteerism. But no matter how seaworthy the craft, how adept the captain, or how steady the wind, without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: Renewing the Appeal of Government | 2/22/1996 | See Source »

Gere's performance is nowhere near as solid as Connery's. Gere's stout American accent is slightly incongruous with the stately English court atmosphere and his screen presence is often dwarfed by Connery...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Connery Shines As King Arthur | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

...stout and entropic body was accented most notably by a pair of taped tortoise-shell glasses and the blood which oozed through a thin t-shirt from his right shoulder. John Norris Tangent '58 proceeded to introuduce me to his world. He knew some things which have, he said, been kept from the rest of the world because his wife, you see, was a spy for the CIA. She was the one who killed Kennedy, for Johnson. (Jack Kennedy, that is. She had no part of Robert's death; that was an FBI job. Mr. Tangen and his wife were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

Marilyn Sokol (Gittel, Sender Shlamazel, Yenta Pesha) is a performing genious as far as bawdy presentational exhibition is concerned, and Charles Levin (Gronam Ox) knows how to sing and strut mock arrogance and hammed idiocy as well as anyone. Remo Airaldi, with a stout frame assisting, caricatures overweight kids and clever petty thieves with equal virtuosity. So why are they only supporting performers...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Tuneful Shlemiel Quite a Schlep | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

...Certainly the University needs to be responsible for anything done under its name or auspices," said Stout, adding that test subjects should receive some financial compensation, either from Harvard or the federal government...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Medical Experts Decry Wrentham Experiment | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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