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When Terry Ray Robinson graduates today, he will leave behind about a dozen alter egos: suave singer, town floozie and betrayer of Christ--just to name a few. Four four years, Robinson has brought these characters to life on various Harvard stages, earning a reputation as one of the college's most talented performers...
...colleagues are unanimous in their assessments of Robinson's talent. "His voice is so rich and so powerful," says Chris Charron '85, who directed the performer in this year's Kirkland House performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Adds Hasty Pudding President Adam Issacs '84: "You get chills listening to him sing...
...Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...
...besieging armies, the German Jew reflects on the oddity of his position: "I stand on this wall built by a Roman emperor and keep watch on the Franks with a Turkish bow in my hand." He dies on a night in June 1098, when the soldiers of Christ sweep into the betrayed fortress...
...Jenny, for Christ's sake, how can I read John Stuart Mill when every single second I'm dying to make love...