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...create an unsentimental portrait of moral strength in the midst of squalor. But nearly every detail (from the mellow jazz musical interludes to a 10-year-old boy's wince in pain as his mama pulls a comb through his hair) seems exactly right in Kenny Leon's finely wrought production...
...show succeeds not because of what it does, but because of what it doesn’t do. Unlike a lot of misbegotten Mainstages, it has been neither overthought nor hastily wrought. Blocker has given us a refreshingly safe interpretation of Stoppard’s play, has cast it with uniformly talented actors, and hasn’t tried to pass off a mass of steel scaffolding as a set. If the show wasn’t a little on the long side, I wouldn’t recognize it as a Mainstage...
...have enough information." This fit in nicely with the Enlightenment spirit, and it took wing. The Hartford, Conn., minister Horace Bushnell, its great 19th century proponent, declared that atonement's new location was not in "remote fields of being" but in humanity, as "a moral effect, wrought in the mind of the race." Jesus' death became less central, because it was no longer the price for lifting the burden of sin; instead, Bushnell's successors took to preaching the Saviour's life, exhorting their congregations to strive toward reconciliation with the Father by emulating the Son's healings, his scourging...
...messenger.” Between Bush’s over-zealous pursuit of illusory weapons in Iraq, and his under-zealous pursuit of a peaceful settlement in Israel, any plan he proposes for the Middle East is bound to be regarded suspiciously. The damage to our reputation wrought by the Iraq war will be hard to fix, but the president must make a credible effort to get Sharon and the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table. Until he does, the GME initiative will...
...varsity’s seven weekend scores, the Warwick, R.I. native wrought havoc on the Brown defense, even when not directly responsible for a tally...