Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greek tragedies Euripides was there, and so was Irish novelist James Joyce. But when the night was done, it was Peter Weiss's book. The Investigation, as orally interpreted by Justin Richardson '85 that captured the Boylston Prize, Harvard's oldest award...
...supply assistance to revolutionary or counterrevolutionary movements that might seek to overthrow governments, to terminate any such aid currently being given, and not to allow their territories to be used for subverting other governments." American signatories of the panel's report included former Cabinet officers Robert McNamara, Elliot Richardson, Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance; such business leaders as Banker David Rockefeller and Time Inc. Chairman Ralph Davidson; and retired Air Force General David Jones, who until last June was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...occasion for the play is a late evening visit by a new biology professor clustin Richardson, and his insipid wife Honey (Caroline Isenberg) I accept for Martha's eventual seduction of Nick, there is little real action. In a quiet evening of domesticity, four respectable, middle class people tear each other to shreds. The actions is a powerful mix of lean Pam Sartre's bleakly existential No Exit and Mad Magazine indicated Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions...
...other for 23 years. Keyser's George is properly sardonic and resigned, while Rabb's Martha transcends nastiness. When Rabb admits in the final lines that she is afraid of Virginia Woolf, we see a nasty and bitter woman afraid of the impending madness that led Woolf to suicide. Richardson plays a sturdy and naive Nick, while Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place a large liquor cabinet overpoweringly in the middle of the stage, so that the audience like the characters...
...this, Aspen needs to convince itself that its old ways will no longer work. "Greed dominates the town. There was an arrogance toward tourists that used to prevail," said Thomas Richardson, the former president of the Aspen Skiing Corp. "People put their heads in the sand and said, 'We're the best.' Suddenly, we're not No. 1 any more. Now Aspen has a reputation as a rip-off community." The town's troubles are not likely to lead to a bust similar to the one Aspen experienced after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver-Purchase...