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Monologues dominate the first two plays, which contain almost no sustained movement on stage. When Waiting for Godot was first produced thirty years ago, reviewers called it boring and meaningless. Today, it is a staple in most dramatic repertories; it remains to be seen whether these two pieces of 1976 and 1981--though tedious and difficult--will attain equal popularity. Certainly an open mind is essential for any viewer of these plays, with or without any familiarity with Beckett's other work...
...began to feel sick and turned off the television. The image of the victim's face stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...
MOST BOOK JACKETS are meaningless eye catchers, but the designer of Madeleine L 'Engle's latest novel exhibits a starting perspicacity. Behind plain white lettering. A Severed Wasp is covered with dense tapestry like patterns of violet, lavender and deeper purples, the type of ribbed stripes that appear inside the covers of very old books. Only the volume's square boundaries give any shape to the intricate interplay of threads and colors...
...only took another 32 seconds for Rob Wheeler to beat a clearly rattled Proulx from the right faceoff circle for his first varsity goal. After Chris Terreri replaced Proulx and Visone banked one in off the new goalie's skates, two late Friar goals were meaningless THE NOTEBOOK. The win raises Harvard's record to 12-6-1 (10-4-1 in the ECAC) and moves the Crimson into a fourth-place tie with UNH. It marked the first time Harvard has won this year without Scott Fusco scoring a point. At Bright Center Providence 1 2 2 5 Harvard...
...essential that Harvard view the new regulation as the unfair and arbitrary measure it is. Draft registration itself has been problematic from the start, both philosophically and practically. It is extremely doubtful whether the whole concept has ever been more than meaningless saber rattling. serving only to make an actual war more conceivable. Worse, the selective enforcement of the law so far has underscored the typically arbitrary prosecution of nonregistrants...