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August 8, 1982--Several irrepressible summer schoolers opened an exclusive women's leg shaving salon in Weld. In a valiant move to protect the enterprising shearers from the fierce competition that would have undoubtedly ensued, Harvard censored an article on the shaving service from an issue of the Summer Times...
...R.S.C. stalwart who won an Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity on the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News, is conducting a valiant but vain effort to revive the corpse of Charley's Aunt. Most of the cast treats this 1892 farce as reverently as if they were playing Westminster Abbey; Rhys Jones, dressed for most of the play in widow's weeds, at least manages a passable impression of Margaret...
...second reservation is that the nuclear debate is as complex as any in American political history. There is no single "nuclear issue," but many interrelated ones that it would be unwise to study in isolation. Living With Nuclear Weapons makes a valiant effort to shrink aspects of the nuclear debate to human dimensions. It employs frequent analogies--to duels, track meets, football games, horses, porcupines and staircases--and even includes a "checklist of arms control proposals" that is reminiscent of nothing so much as a Topps baseball card. But even it must descend into nuclear complexity, and sometimes it fails...
...Bertolt Brecht would be anything but demanding. Perhaps it's the lure of this challenge that's led to so many Brechtian productions at Harvard lately. Some of these have been successful like Peter Sellars' elegant and effective "das Kleine Mahagonny." Director Ted Osius leads his players in a valiant effort to stage Mother Courage. Brecht's anti-war masterpiece Clearly, he works with a devoted cast. However, staging a play by Brecht is a bit like walking a tightrope--it requires that a cast be teetering at all times, almost off-balance. The Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club production teeters...
...those of us for whom the croissant has become as American as, well, apple pie. French protectiveness for the native tongue may seem a bit absurd. But the new law is simply a valiant--if misguided--attempt to turn back the tidal wave of Americanization France is not the first nation to feel threatened in the face of what amounts to linguistic imperialism by the United States...