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Buried Child, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a tragic, warped American family, is a disturbing text, even in this newly revised form. And Marcus Stern's production, full of bizarre, haunting sounds and images, is fantastic theater. However, it isn't entirely clear that Stern's production and Shepherd's text have all that much to do with one another...
...have taken residence in Cambridge and to be surrounded by communities which are rich and diverse and in which people of different incomes and classes interact, communicate and associate as neighbors. I would hate to see class barriers become strengthened around me; it would be an even more tragic loss to our local communities and to their residents. It would be a great misfortune to the city and to Harvard students like me who are so inspired by Cambridge's mixed-income neighborhoods as models of successfully integrated communities...
Thinking vaguely of the Civil War as some distant, tragic conflict is dangerous. But if we strip away scales of historical amnesia and remember that the Civil War was a struggle between competing moral conceptions, one good and one evil, we must oppose any memorial which includes Confederate names...
...memorial that intermingles Union and Confederate names also places both causes on an even moral footing. This disrespects the Union cause, equating patriotism with treason and emancipation with slavery. Had the Confederacy succeeded, would we view the result as morally neutral? Although it is tragic that so many Southern men died in the Civil War, we are glad that their Confederacy was vanquished...
...THIS TRAGIC TIME, WHEN WE HAVE lost a great friend of peace in Rabin, we must reflect on the outcome of Jew against Jew. The peace process started by Rabin will not be reversed. This is the time for serious dialogue. We must not allow a demented killer to change the course of history. It is the moment to create a peace that will endure for ages to come. This is a time for unity. DAVID WEXLER Setauket, New York...