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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wedged under a heavy corner of Adams House in the piped labyrinth of the basement there are two unmarked wooden doors. Behind them, three or four rooms wind inwards like the chambers of a shell. They are cluttered with odd implements--worn-wood museum pieces with too many handles and big, gripless screws. There are empty racks and cupboards full of metals. There is a smell of deepening rubber. And nested in the inner room, there is the press...
...title of a play depicting the journey of a few extraordinary young men and women through adolescence to their admission at Harvard College. But you won't find the Crimson Key society performing variations at information sessions. In fact, Uncommon Children comes from a combination of the titles of two plays --Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein and Moonchildren by Michael Weller--produced together in the Leverett Old Library though December...
...same, unfortunately, cannot be said for Moonchildren. Set during the '66-'67 school year, the play revolves around the lives of seven college hippies--five men and two women--living communally in an apartment in New York. The issue of the day is the Vietnam War, and the men are terrified of being drafted after they graduate. That is to say, one of them mentions that inclination once near the beginning of the play. Weller's idea of developing this theme consist of having his protagonist Bob (Jay Chaffin '01) summoned for a medical exam, act like he is dead...
Unfortunately, he failed to realize that another vice presidential candidate, Katherine E. Tenney '01, participated in Harvard crew for two years and no doubt could stand as an equally competent coastguard. His entire platform thus undermined, Wikler's parting cry of "Don't miss the boat!" ironically applied more to him than to potential voters...
...Harvard has it all, but it's not all there for students," said vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, who said the council should focus on bringing both "big and small" amenities--like rock concerts and two-ply toilet paper--to students...