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...perfect plan, but the masters are willing to try it," Leverett House Master John A. Dowling '57 said...
Oberhuber and Blumenthal are largely indistinguishable on stage, but that does not detract from the production, as the actors are equally amusing. Oberhuber, however, does steal the funniest scene in the work. He remarks on the globular maid Nell: "I could discern countries upon her." When his master, Antipholus of Syracuse, quizzes him about the location of the Netherlands, he responds in mock-shock, "Oh, master, I did not look...
Brought up in Chicago, Nelan studied journalism at the University of Illinois, then received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. After three years as a TIME diplomatic correspondent in Washington, Nelan and his wife Rose, also a journalist, headed abroad. They have spent most of the years since overseas, along the way rearing two sons, Terence, 19, and Tony...
Clancy first read of the incident in 1976, when the Washington Post carried an unconfirmed report. He got more details in 1982 from a master's thesis written by a student at the U.S. Naval Academy. Clancy acknowledges taking considerable dramatic license: his defecting submarine commander makes it safely to the U.S. after much cold war derring-do. "My book has a historical foundation," says the author. "But it is a work of fiction...
...smaller and more delicate than she appears in pictures, her voice higher and more nasal than on her records. There is a solidity about her, a muscular spirituality. Her element is earth, not air. A master of silence, she does not talk about what she doesn't know. Mostly, she is wary, skeptical...