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Some of the best and most interesting theater on campus came from outside the College. A troupe of Irish university student actors began their American tour by treating Harvard audiences to strong, unorthodox performances of four plays by modern Irish dramatists, including J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
...almost complete absence of entertainment. Sidney Monas, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, describes Raisa's paper, a synopsis of which is available at the Library of Congress as well as the Lenin Library in Moscow, as "slightly better than average, not altogether unorthodox, but with some distinct liberal tendencies." She pioneered sociological survey methods at a time when sociology was not considered a proper field of study in the Soviet Union. For example, she found that the lower a peasant's education level, the more likely he was to own religious icons...
...Congressional Aide Tom Pappas leaps to his death after it is revealed that for years he engaged in unorthodox employment practices, including advertising for single young men (photographs requested) and making unusual demands on their social lives. Congress has exempted itself from equal-employment laws that might prevent such practices in private industry...
...Shakespeare Company in 1987, he had a daunting artistic legacy to equal. But, according to associates, Hands may have yearned just as much to emulate Nunn's commercial success -- and income -- as director of the musicals Cats, Les Miserables and Starlight Express. Hands committed himself to staging a most unorthodox venture for the R.S.C.: a $7 million musical adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 horror novel Carrie. In meetings, colleagues say, Hands was apt to recite costs and potential box-office income at various Broadway houses...
...than were there in 1984. "If Dukakis gets pictured as soft on defense," says Slagle, "he's in a ton of trouble down here." Slagle's solution: lure Georgia Senator Sam Nunn onto the ticket by offering to make him Secretary of Defense as well as Vice President. That unorthodox approach would compensate for Dukakis' lack of expertise in national security affairs, but it would be a confession of weakness on his part. A choice for running mate is supposed to welcome the invitation without imposing large conditions...