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What to do with a tragedy that’s not that tragic? Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of King Richard the Second,” produced by Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, which played at the Ex from April 27 to 29, is the story of a king brought down by his own poor decisions and inattention to important affairs of state. For all his flowery speeches bemoaning his fate and defending the divine right of kings, he comes across as more whiny than righteously...
...Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility—even as it remains ever elusive and unfulfilled. “So we beat on,” Fitzgerald...
...blowing eastward from the test site toward the sparsely populated stretches of Utah and northern Arizona, the Government seemed unconcerned. Radiation sensors were few and often operated improperly. And officials disregarded evidence of potential hazards. Said former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs: "The tragic thing is that all this could have been prevented...
This, of course, has led to a tragic misreading of the novel...
...Saturday, April 29. 8 p.m. Cabot House Junior Common Room. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 417-8146. $10; $5 students. Moving from the mean streets of New York to the bright lights of Broadway to a more humble stage at Harvard, Leonard Bernstein’s tragic musical “West Side Story” opens this week at Cabot House. Directed by Cabot House Administrator Susan Livingston, the Cabot House Musical is a long-standing tradition with a cast made up mostly of Cabot residents and Quadlings with a few River-dwellers mixed in. Though...