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They colonized the English stage, floating across it on (hopefully) invisible wires as actor-managers put their casts through ever more ethereal effects of movement and stage lighting; their defiance of gravity was to popular theater what the computer generation of dinosaurs and space oddities is to movies today. Arthur Conan Doyle was the son of a fairy painter, Charles Altamont Doyle, who died mad, but the creator of Sherlock Holmes was so gullible himself that as late as 1917 he defended some fake photos of fairies made by an enterprising pair of teenage English schoolgirls. You'd almost suppose...
...ever lived up to your expectations of college life beyond Harvard? Try something a little different: Framingham State College. Tonight's selection in their International Film Series is Landscapes in the Mist, an example of Greek cinema (with the obligatory English subtitles). Following the movie, film critic Dr. Arthur Nolletti Jr. will lead a discussion. 7:30 p.m., College Center Forum, Framingham State College, State Street, Framingham. 508-626-4968. Tickets $6, $4 seniors and students...
...last week?s election by voters with a laundry list of more important concerns. But for the House Judiciary Committee, it?s still the most pressing matter in America -? as Monday?s strange parade of legal scholars and historians bore witness to. And what did luminaries such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Watergate veteran Rev. Robert Drinan largely agree on? That you can?t, or shouldn?t, censure the President. It?s impeachment or nothing. And that puts the rabidly pro-impeachment GOP majority on the committee on a crash course with public opinion...
...department, directed by Arthur Hochstein, always impresses us with its ability to make stories visually interesting. This week we'd like to recognize two of its stars...
...Arthur Tillman Merritt, who for 40 years worked in Harvard's music department as professor and chair, died on Sunday in Bedford, Mass...