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...roles with plenty of energy, and keep this intricate vessel moving smoothly forward. Conner Trinneer plays Septimus with a charming cockiness, blended with tenderness for his 13-year-old charge, and the tutor becomes the most sympathetic figure in the play, despite his extensive philandering. Gretchen Cleevely plays the wise child with a sort of Margaret O'Brien chirpiness, which is distracting, but not excessively so; more troubling are the scenes toward the end of the play, which seem to propose the 16-year-old Thomasina as a potential sexual partner for her adult tutor. Granted, this was more appropriate...
Senior lightweight crew captain Ryan Wise concurred...
...people a year fall in the river, so it's not a major concern," Wise said. "We're all aware of it and are talking about it some, but the Charles is infinitely cleaner now than it was a decade...
...particular task, whether making money, curing the sick, helping the underprivileged, entertaining the bored, advancing science, winning arguments, reporting the news, deconstructing texts, grinding out punditry or decrying oppression. The liberal education goes beyond making one good at something or for something. It makes one good and wise without qualification. It aims to produce the whole human being, who possesses everything of genuine worth, who lives in truth rather than ignorance, and whose soul has come to rest...
...Sept. 24, is a sometimes amusing, mostly blah disc that may move units but doesn't move the soul. In better form is Counting Crows, whose first CD was a multiplatinum hit and a consistent delight; the band's Recovering the Satellites (Oct. 15) is a wise, worthy successor. Also, teen singer Aaliyah's second CD, One in a Million (just out), is soulfully soothing, and neo-soul performer Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension (Nov. 5) should generate buzz. All three of these sophomores look ready to graduate to stardom...