Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...talented two-miler and the co-captain of this year's women's team, Taylor joined the Harvard program as a freshman; and 1976 was a rookie year both for her and the current women's track coach, Pappy Hunt...
Since then, though, Taylor has become someone who Hunt calls instrumental in helping to build a solid women's running program here. "Kat's been one of the biggest boosters of our program since she was a freshman, talking to people and hosting recruits," Hunt said this week...
...life as a "misfit." By the time I was seventeen, I'd managed to pilfer a few Playgirl magazines to indulge my fantasies, and one day my mother discovered them. My parents were shocked, scared, even ashamed. I was signed up for counseling at the Josephine County Mental Health Program: perhaps it would not be "too late." After three months there I got fed up with being asked to believe that I had talked myself into being gay, when for years I had been trying to talk myself out of it! I told my mother I wouldn't go anymore...
Foremost, Terry Won't Talk embraces a thoroughgoing relativism, a denial of all values, an exposition of Wittgenstein's dictum (included in the program notes) that "all propositions are of equal value." As Mr. Blade tells Chester, "There's always an alternative," a meaningless choice between meaningless poles. People talk in paralleled non sequiturs...
These ideas are not meant to be taken altogether seriously; Leib's artistry in creating a fine one-act play, and the softpedalled wryness of the pretentious program notes (including quotes from Kafka, Steiner, and Beckett, as well as Wittgenstein) only enhance the subtlety of what amounts to an elaborate parody of an absurdist drama. This is not to say that Leib does not believe in an absurdist view of the universe--he clearly does. He just doesn't believe in writing a play about it. His focus is not on the ideas themselves, which are, as Terry should...