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Other men selected to the Alpha chapter were Samuel M. Brown, Sumit K. Daftuar, Edward J. Han, Paul Li, Frank A. Pasquale, Andrea G. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Zachary S. Taylor, Ramin Toloui-Tehrani, Felix T. Wu, Yong Yeow Y.Yeoh and Jake S. Yeston...
...message administrators project is research first, lectures second. Students suffer as a result. In the long run, academic fields suffer as well, because jaded professors fail to usher talented new minds into the subject. The system is both harmful and counterproductive. Jake Yeston...
...Phantom. Yeston (music and lyrics) and Kopit (book) completed their version in 1985, but when Lloyd Webber announced his Phantom, they found it tough to raise money. Kopit and Lloyd Webber briefly discussed collaborating, but their visions of the Phantom didn't mesh. The Yeston-Kopit version was dead for nearly six years, then miraculously resurrected at Houston's Theater Under the Stars. Yeston's melodies often skim the roiling emotions Lloyd Webber's music swims in, but they are sophisticated show tunes, operatic and operettic by turns. Kopit balances the Phantom-Christine romance with an All About Eve , rivalry...
...know that the story has limitations. The Phantom can sing only one kind of song to Christine: I-adore-you-and-you-ab hor-me. Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...
...There's a current fascination with disfigurement," Yeston says, "not only of the face but of the soul. The Phantom is the outsider, the Steppenwolf. In many ways he captures a central irony of our times: it's the one who has the imperfect appearance who has a kind of moral perfection." The superiority of the wounded: it is a metaphor that speaks -- no, it sings -- to every loser in love or in life...