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...PAST few years, Harvard's Mainstage has acquired a reputation for seriously strange and bizarre theater: from Paul Warner's Rocky Horroresque stylistics to Kevin Jennings' psychedelically lit social messages, the Mainstage and the HRDC have self-marginalized themselves with a Spartacist zeal. In a recent effort to make the Mainstage more accessible as well as more profitable, Shakespeare and Bernstein have replaced Aeschylus in drag...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Agony and Ecstasy on the Mainstage | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...production's pre-publicity, the accent in this tragi-comedy is very much upon the comedy, and this has proved to be both the strength and the weakness of the show. Foresaking the classical approach, Mao has tackled Measure for Measure with an impish, irreverent and almost knock-about zeal which certainly provides the hallmark of the production. The problem is knowing when the comedy stops...

Author: By Richard J. Howells, | Title: Doling It Out | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

...scholars. The Guide's unanticipated impact on academic careers has made it the focus of intense scrutiny by some faculty and administrators, who have led a relentless if futile crusade to purge subjectiveness from its pages. In the process, they have compromised its value to students, and in their zeal, they now threaten to emasculate the guide altogether...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: CUE Quandry | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

...these hearings, and all of these sanctions, will be so much misplaced zeal and effort. If the Administration were as quick to value the moral argument against apartheid as they are the "smooth" functioning of their University, we might all be able to attend to the real issues at hand--whether this University stands for something higher that profit, whether the truth in "Veritas" really means anything. (and incidentally, truth is never "neutral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair Punishments? | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...troubleshooter, he's been assigned to the untroubled Australian Division to find out what the trouble is, then take care of it. "Don't get scared" and "don't get angry" Coke warns the Australian Headquarters. The caveat seems an understatement when we see the incredible yet believable religious zeal which Roberts gives his character. Truly, he is what Kubrick had in mind in Dr. Strangelove with the solemn declaration "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company." He permits no distractions, such a sexy secretary (Greta Scacchi) or a revolutionary waiter, to block his quest for constant...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: Absurd But True | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

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