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...little insecure, but it hardly detracted from the exhilarating performance. After the intermission, the orchestra played Felix Mendelssohn’s third symphony, “Scottish.” The violins rescued the shaky opening solo by the violas, leading the strings’ lyricism throughout the tragic movement. The violins continued to play with convincing urgency for the duration of the piece, but the lower strings couldn’t muster much support. The lively second movement was buoyant with running 16th notes in the strings like a motor beneath the orchestra. The speed occasionally got the better...
...Ibsen: there's no real action, just reaction to the revelation of long-hidden secrets.) Miller's indictment of business ethics and portrait of a family in crisis can seem overwrought, but McBurney's solution is to go the playwright one better; his expressionistic devices imbue the play with tragic universality. The capable cast includes John Lithgow as Joe, Dianne Wiest as his wife, and Patrick Wilson as his adoring, deluded son. But the reason crowds are rushing to see All My Sons is the fourth member of the ensemble: Katie Holmes, making her Broadway debut as the daughter...
...What we’re witnessing in the media is a tragic study in what women are up against running for office in this country. Either they are seen as competent and threatening or as a joke worthy of ridicule,” Steinberg said, speaking about the coverage of Hillary Clinton as well...
...What we take away from these instances of classically tragic political downfalls should not be that our government is necessarily the corrosive cesspool that Senator John McCain and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have both tried to conjure for partisan ends. If we are to be disheartened, let it be because of the tendency in government to look after one’s own, and to ultimately spare offenders any meaningful repercussions...
...looking forward to foregoing alcohol two quarters earlier than in past years. Yale senior Tyler W. Hill called the tighter regulations—instituted in part by the city of Boston order to bring The Game tailgate in line with other university sporting events—“tragic.” But Hill also said he remained undaunted by the more restrictive policy. “Yale is an industrious bunch, and no mere regulations can be wielded against us that will quash our ability to have fun,” he said. “We might...