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...there is one sour note to this production, it lies in the fact that the actors are not always well-served by the text. Director Mark Penney has chosen to use a translation by Eric Bentley; though the translation has many merits, its British-inflected dialogue sounds stilted when delivered with an American accent. Price and Carlson are particularly disadvantaged, since the awkward dialogue impairs their believability. (Karin Alexander, who speaks with a British accent, is the only cast member unaffected...
...Courses of Instruction: 810 pages. This catalog is the Harvard student's sacred text and deserves a cover-to-cover read. Harvard offers a class that fills virtually every possible intellectual niche. After a high school spent regurgitating force-fed facts, a little freedom feels good...
Courses of Instruction: 810 pages. This catalog is the Harvard student's sacred text and deserves a cover-to-cover read. Harvard offers a class that fills virtually every possible intellectual niche. After a high school spent regurgitating force-fed facts, a little freedom feels good...
...course, the Shakespeare search engine I used to find these quotes has a distancing quality because it displays only the line of text in which the word you want appears. It's up to you to click on the link to the whole scene and discover or recall the context of the language. Part of what has kept Shakespeare alive in our society for so long is his eminent quotability in small catch-phrases. It is easy for a politician, a screenwriter or a columnist to manipulate the poet's words for her own purposes. But the genius of Shakespeare...
...current Harvard Graduate School of Education student, is indirectly responsible, it seems, for our most recent constitutional crisis. He was described in Monica Lewinsky's book, "Monica's Story," as having dubbed Lewinsky "Big Mac" while at John Thomas Dye Elementary school in Bel Air, Calif. According to the text, the slight "was made all the more painful, because at the time she was harboring a schoolgirl crush on him." It became a "canker in her psyche." FM caught up with Spalding last week...