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...skid marks left by dozens of previous books, movies and teleplays show the terrain: innocent children imperiled by drunken carelessness; a steadfast spouse trying to understand and cope; an alarming incident that brings the victim to the edge of self-destruction -- and self-awareness; the decision to seek professional help; the terrors of detox; the fragile return to sobriety and the recriminatory rebalancing of power in a damaged family; and finally the tearful public confession, carrying with it an implicit promise of a responsible future, which offers audiences a reassuring sense that they have once again witnessed a triumph...
Broken Glass revisits familiar Miller terrain. The era is the Depression, the battleground is a Jewish family, the ugly rumbling offstage is the rise of Adolf Hitler. The mainspring of the play is the paralysis that Sylvia Gellburg suffers in her legs, which has no apparent physical cause. Is it a result of her sexless and bitter marriage? Is it linked to the futile assimilationism of her Jew-among-Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency...
...first Provost in nearly 40 years, he has played an absolutely central role in the University-wide academic planning process that has unfolded over the last few years. He has made critical contributions to bringing Harvard's different Faculties closer together. He has charted a course through new terrain for many inter-Faculty academic initiatives, and has ably taken on some of the most challenging administrative problems facing the University, in areas as diverse as science policy, benefits planning and information technology...
...skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their way to the east, frequently on the backs of Tibetans who ferry the contraband across mountainous, sparsely populated terrain to the Chinese border...
...might be easier for them to get a favorable vote statewide because they have access to real estate money," Kaufman said. "The terrain is much more favorable to them...