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...Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater last fall presented writer-director Eric Simonson's big, imaginatively staged adaptation of Moby Dick; there was no whale, but a surprising amount of Herman Melville's imposing novel made it onstage. (Adaptations of epic novels, like John Irving's Cider House Rules, have a habit of flopping in New York.) Houston's enterprising Alley Theater last fall staged a fine production of The General from America, Richard Nelson's brooding, against-the-grain, surprisingly convincing historical drama about Benedict Arnold. (The play later opened off-Broadway, where the critics, predictably, dissed...
...February, McCarthy, then an unknown senator from Wisconsin, told a group of people at the Wheeling, W.Va. Women’s Club that he had a list of 205 communists in the State Department—and was planning to root them...
Pusey hailed from Appleton, Wis., McCarthy’s hometown. The two had crossed paths just a year before when Pusey was one of 100 prominent Wisconsin residents who signed a booklet, titled “The McCarthy Record,” that criticized the senator’s political decisions during his reelection campaign...
California, No. 4 Washington and No. 3 Wisconsin will all provide tough competition for Harvard. California beat Washington twice prior to the Pac-10 championships and Wisconsin once in March. Wisconsin beat Washington in April. Harvard’s only head-to-head meeting with any of those crews was against Wisconsin at Eastern Sprints...
...Wisconsin finished a distant third, 7.62 seconds behind the Tigers, while Georgetown took fourth and William & Mary placed fifth, 21.18 and 41.7 out of first, respectively...