Word: wellers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Written by Michael Weller...
...women through adolescence to their admission at Harvard College. But you won't find the Crimson Key society performing variations at information sessions. In fact, Uncommon Children comes from a combination of the titles of two plays --Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein and Moonchildren by Michael Weller--produced together in the Leverett Old Library though December...
...women--living communally in an apartment in New York. The issue of the day is the Vietnam War, and the men are terrified of being drafted after they graduate. That is to say, one of them mentions that inclination once near the beginning of the play. Weller's idea of developing this theme consist of having his protagonist Bob (Jay Chaffin '01) summoned for a medical exam, act like he is dead for a month, and then forget the issue entirely. The draft is not mentioned again, though one would assume it would be the main cause for worry among...
...Moonchildren" by Michael Weller...
Indeed, pot and alcohol are common forms of self-medication among depressed teens. Weller estimates that about 30% of her teen patients have used pot or alcohol after a depressive episode, most of them at the urging of friends who said smoking and drinking would make them feel better. A high school social worker in Minnesota decided to look into the case of a troubled girl who was still a freshman at 17. The girl admitted she smoked pot as a constant habit but did not understand why she craved it so much. A psychological evaluation found the girl...