Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced on a branch above a caterpillar that is crawling upward, presumably to its doom. It is a graphic masterpiece. You feel the tension in the body of the bird as it balances before striking, and every flick of the brush bespeaks alertness...
...actors, moreover, contribute performances that continually build tension as the play hurries towards its frenetic climax. As Suzy Hendrix, Julie L. Rattey '01 pulls off an exceedingly difficult role--she is a striking mix of inner strength and physical vulnerability. Though helpless once the contest turns physical, Suzy's always one step ahead of her stalkers (and Rattey's pensive pauses and subtle gesturing give us the sense that her character is always thinking, always plotting). As Gloria, Suzy's teenage helper, Kate Johnsen '01 is appropriately petulant (though she is unfortunately saddled with a number of hackneyed, static lines...
Epps also noted what he called "low levels of racial tension" at the College. In a recent survey of the senior class, 80 percent of those polled had mixed-race friendship groups, Epps said...
Counter said that the Harvard Foundation has worked since 1981 to reduce the level of racial tension at the college...
...Take that atmosphere of tension and suspicion and magnify it a thousand times, then have it last for 40 years, and you get an idea of the tension that has built up, that is now just unfolding," Eckert said...