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...along with set designer Steve O'Donnell and graphics designer Gino Lee have come up with one elegant set. A white screen framed by bronze--like the black canvas of an as-yet unpainted portrait of a war hero-provides the backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void. This screen provides an ingenious mechanism for utilizing Brechtian techniques. Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye. The screen also enables Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play in the context...
...about to come of age. What better place to reach maturity than on a spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...
...also take issue with the vagueness of the majority's "proposal." The opinion is void of specific details concerning exactly how this lottery would be weighted, or how the policy could be uniformly applied to courses with varying percentages of applicants from the four classes...
...writers of the dissent do not see "any great moral or philosophical issue in registration." This is so only if one sees action as divorced from intent, void of all meaning beyond immediate effects. Registration is not, as they term it, merely "filling out a postcard." Nor are conscientious objection and "alternative service" acceptable options for those of us who have renounced any and all acts which imply our consent to kill another human being, either personally or as party to the government bureaus in the business of killing human beings...
...positive step, and one which other colleges have taken, would be to guarantee in-house loans or grants to the nonregistered students whom the law would affect. It is up to the University, now discussing its response to the law, to fill the financial void. By supplying such funds. Harvard need not make a political statement against registration; it would merely reaffirm its current policy of supplying all aid a student needs, regardless of how much of that money comes from outside sources...