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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks like Harvard is still stuck in the days of wine and togas. Just as the artistic and unconventional visiting director's version of The Bacchae closes at the Agassiz Theatre, a grandiose production of the same play bursts onto the Loeb Main Stage. As the entire theater community, from performers to playgoers, watches with anticipation and some trepidation, one question still looms on everyone's mind: will the last production taint the response to this show, or will this one overshadow the memories of the last...
...taught the first version of this course in the form of a research seminar called World Religion in New England...
...criticizing President Clinton's veto of the Clementine II program that would target an asteroid with a space probe [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 27]. The veto had nothing to do with asteroid indifference and everything to do with the fundamental weaknesses of the program. Clementine II is a thinly disguised version of the discredited "Brilliant Pebbles" missile-defense program of the 1980s, which posed major technical and treaty-compliance problems. The Air Force in 1997 did not want in its budget this Son of Brilliant Pebbles, masquerading as an asteroid-research program. Vetoing Clementine II was the right and responsible thing...
Also, I was sort of hoping that Taking Charge might settle some lingering questions about my role in the policy that came to dominate the Johnson presidency. Maybe next to a reference to some extemporaneous ramblings he had delivered on the campaign trail--yet another version of what we speechwriters used to call his county-commissioner speech--I'd find a footnote by Michael Beschloss, who edited the tapes, saying, "Technically, this speech was written by Calvin Trillin, but, since what L.B.J. said bears absolutely no resemblance to the text, Trillin is not considered responsible for the war in Vietnam...
John Berendt's nonfiction best seller has yet to appear between soft covers. So the film, directed by Clint Eastwood, serves as the audiovisual paperback version. It is likely to disappoint the book's acolytes and tax the patience of newcomers...