Word: wane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These characters all seem to be trapped in an unlucky cocktail party that everyone senses is a dud evening. Their voices whine, wane and falter until the grim last line and title of the play reduces everyone to glum silence...
...production is well worth seeing. Ionesco's popularity may be on the wane these days, but his best plays- and this is one of them- are always worthy of attention...
...what they think of the Panthers' Ten-Point Program; as the dozens of jurors move through the courtroom like the Silent Majority on parade. The politics are obvious as the observers endure the body searches; they band together in sharing food, drinks, books, chairs, worry about how thin and wane Huggins has become, worshipfully note Seale's daily state of mind, and then reflect it, scurry out of the courtroom at the end of the day to catch a last glimpse of the defendants being led away...
...ones whom he has helped to cure. In the meantime, there is the interminable process of living. Diagnosis is simply a gauge for determining what stage the wasting-away process has reached. Chekhov is a great diagnostician, a man with an immensely vital sense of life on the wane...
DiCara's political career has not exactly been on the wane during his stay at Harvard. His name started appearing on ballots as soon as the Class of '71 arrived in Cambridge. He made it onto the Freshman Council, though losing the race for chairmanship to the class's other aspiring politician, John Hanify of HUC (Harvard Undergraduate Council) fame. Later, DiCara became a part of the HUC, SFAC (Student-Faculty Advisory Committee), and the Quincy House Committee, which he chaired his final year...