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This recognition is the source of Lessing's strength. As interested as she has become in grand designs or configurations of enormous powers, she does not forget the here and now. She will still pause for moments of liquid beauty, stop to portray a sliver of the moon reflected in a dusty courtyard pool in Morocco. Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing...
...could do to keep from crying," he recalled later. "Even though I know that I can portray an 18th-century Frenchman if the role called for it, every time I go to an audition I feel they're looking at me only as a skin color." Hail feels that any actor should be allowed to audition for any role as long as he can make the characterization believable. "Besides," he says, "part of my and every other Afro-American's cultural experience is white, which makes me artistically capable of playing a white...
Bowersock, who chairs the theater committee, believes that "there should be open auditions for anyone. A director may have considerations of style, but race ought not to enter in." Epps agrees that "a person should be chosen for roles on the basis of his ability to portray the character, not just," he adds, "because of the right of access, but also because it is important for us to go beyond racial stereotypes...
Most alumni said the book and movie accurately portray the insecurity of the students and their eagerness to fight in the war. "This was a very popular war," Irvin M. Horowitz '45 said yesterday. "There was virtually no anti-war feeling on campus," he added...
However, several alumni said that the movie and the book incorrectly portray student life in the '40s as constantly exciting and romantic. John J. Hardy '44 said that the movie focuses only on the atypical, unusually rich students at Harvard...