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...Vale women's basketball team bear, or more properly, slaughtered, the Radcliffe basketball team on Saturday 59-36, in Cambridge...
...heady vision; a vision which comes from a world far removed from woman's oppressed sphere in man's socially stratified vale of tears. There is an explosive intrigue in the confluence of these realities. A woman once was wise enough to contemplate woman's struggle in man's hell from the strength of universal vision. Florida Scott-Maxwell was eighty-two and "fierce with reality" when she wrote about the Virgin Mary...
Although Winnie has about 95 per cent of the play's lines (most of Willie's lines are a series of grunts), the couple are co-equal as characters, and the contrast between them is anything but insignificant. Each character presents alternative ways of facing this vale of tears, and Beckett's play only begins to make sense as an exploration of the human condition when the counterpoint of their relationship is fully established...
...regarded as one of those periodic efforts to save the ailing theater. The god Dionysus (Larry Blyden) resolves to go down to Hades and bring back Euripides. In the Shevelove version, Bernard Shaw substitutes. As his companion, Dionysus takes along his obese, grumbling Sancho Panza-like servant Xanthias (Michael Vale). They have their slapstick encounters, not only with the cranky Charon, who speaks like a movie gold prospector, but with enticing houris, underworld strong-arm men, termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey), god of the underworld. It seems that Shakespeare sits on the throne of honor...
Clifton will leave his position as headmaster of the Green Vale Country Day School to take the Harvard post, Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday...