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Topics were not quite so serious throughout, however, and the tone of discussion took a marked turn once audience members’ questions were read by Nowinski...
...second half in particular, when Princeton struggled to remain within striking distance, the Crimson allowed just one drive of more than six plays, and the Tigers failed to advance the ball more than 30 yards even once. Setting the tone for the half, Harvard forced three-and-outs on Princeton’s second, third and fourth drives while its offense continued to extend the lead...
...famous black person,” the inventor of peanuts) or the misanthropic priest Father McGillicutty (Benet Magnuson ’06) explain why God allows war (to prevent overpopulation from causing traffic jams). The show has its moments of humor and pathos, but the sustained tone is a discordant one that, while it does bring the feeling of being in a war zone, is not always pleasant to endure...
...role in American history, however, the scene in which two wounded soldiers sing a homesick “Santa Clause Is Coming To Town” in an attempt to portray the horrors of Vietnam might just as well have been left out, given its incongruity with the overall tone of the play and the difficulty of doing justice to that subject matter...
...whirlwind of questions: If some people are more spiritual than others, is it nature or nurture that has made them so? If science has nothing to do with spirituality and it all flows from God, why do some people hear the divine word easily while others remain spiritually tone-deaf? Do such ivied-hall debates about environment, heredity and anthropology have any place at all in more exalted conversations about the nature...