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Theater is a doubt-edged sword-the success of a production hinges as much on preparation as on creative intuition. Harvard theater tends to be long on creativity, but, all too often, short on background. In fact, the two should be intimately correlated, and informed creativity usually brings the beat results. Simply liking a script does not necessarily justify directing...
...talk about the KGB as if it were an independent body. It is an instrument in the hands of the Soviet Communist Party. Whatever the KGB does inside the country or overseas, it does on the order of the Central Committee." In its emblematic role as the party's sword and shield, the KGB is perhaps the ultimate guarantor of Communist rule. It is the contemporary expression of the traditional Russian obsession with seeking out real and potential enemies of the state...
...start he seemed to be writing with five pens in hand: verse, stories, novels, biographies, essays issued forth as from a publishing house. The son of a London real estate agent was famous at 30, striding through the town like a caricature, a voluminous caped figure, swinging a sword cane and spouting epigrams: "Silence is the unbearable repartee"; "All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it"; "The world will never starve for wonders; but only for want of wonder...
THAT THE ADMINISTRATION opposes these affirmative action programs does not necessarily damn it as bigoted. Affirmative action, like school busing, is an emotional and highly complex issue, and recent cases have shown preferential hiring to be a double-edged sword in which the same arguments can support either side. But the Administration's apparent readiness to throw itself into an already complicated and delicately balanced process of judicial action is yet another example of its penchant for ideological confrontation...
...curtain raiser (The Real Inspector Hound is quite short), the troupe performs Stoppard's equally delightful Dogg's Hamlet. This manic digest of all the famous lines from Hamlet sets the tone well for a lively, if light-weight evening. What with the Hamlet sword play and Inspector Hound's bang-em-up ending, we get a whole lot of corpses for our money...