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...seize a once shallow caricature of a clergyman and transform it into a complex, brooding performance. Karen Ross is a good Mrs. Alving, adding a layer of sophisticated and casual confidence to Ibsen's troubled widow. Stephen Kolzak as the tortured painter Oswald gives an excellent performance; his harrowing breakdown is the one scene where emotion transcends Ibsen's carefully orchestrated social commentaries. Sidney Atwood as Engstrand and Helena Snow as the ambitious Regina handle modernization less effectively by dipping into stereotype. Atwood's carpenter is too much the fast-talking hustler and Snow's best lines are weakened...
...breakdown, which hit H through M entries, occurred at about 2 a.m., but was not reported to Buildings and Grounds until the 8 a.m. arrival of the House superintendant. Power was restored at approximately...
...SUSPENSION last week of the Radcliffe dining halls' shop steward Sherman Holcombe following a verbal altercation with his supervisor reveals once again the myriad problems accompanying a breakdown in communications between the University and its workers...
Released after more than two hours, he later entered a hospital suffering what friends called "a nervous breakdown." Apparently unmoved, the police filed charges that could bring him a maximum of $595,000 in fines or two years in jail...
...been extremely broad-minded; there was rarely a period during their marriage in which Ottoline was not involved with some other man, yet Darroch gives no hint that the two ever quarreled seriously. The relationship, however, was somewhat lopsided--although he accepted her perpetual liaisons, Ottoline had a nervous breakdown when she discovered Philip had been unfaithful to her. She always returned to him following her own extramarital affairs, as if their relationship was the base of security that allowed her to deal with the inconstancy of the outside world, a shelter from her own intensity. When she died...