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While the supporting players are all competent, with Jim Caudle especially shining as Dr. Rank, it is Julie Glucksman's Nora and Brad Dalton's Torvald who make the play work. Dalton effectively portrays Torvald's flawed character, almost a caricature of intolerance and insensitivity. Showing no understanding of human...

Author: By Daniel J. Hurwitz, | Title: Open House | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

Some of us even thought a park with grass, trees and benches would be nice. What a novel idea for Harvard. But no, the University, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to test (once again) our thresholds of pain. As a child, I used to ask my mother where ugly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Horror | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

If governing is an imperfect art form at best, then Government bureaucrats are in a way consummate artists. Imperfection, of course, is a matter of degree. But last week, at three federal agencies, some choice examples of Imperfection's art were on display.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report Card: Three Bad Marks | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

But while Levine has learned his lessons well, he is aware of human limitations, as Callas, with her temperamental voice, always was and as Toscanini, with his fiery temper, usually was not. Levine's musical ethos, demanding though it is, is still far from that of old-fashioned tyrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of the Met: James Levine is the most powerful opera conductor in America | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Father Theodore Hesburgh, 65, president of the University of Notre Dame, is not worried about the debate within the church over the propriety of the bishops' actions. Says he: "You can't move through the water this fast without a lot of turbulence around the edges." The situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bishops and the Bomb | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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