Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whether colleges should assess preparedness or try to compensate for possibly culturally biased tests. "If you want to know whether someone's qualified in chemistry," says Whitla, "you give him a chem exam." "If the color of your eyes will help me" decide between applicants here, says Peter H. Richardson, MIT's director of admissions, "then I'll take it on the color of your eyes...
...Richardson, Texas...
Nothing is more deceptive about The Browning Version than the insubstantiality of its plot; it seems to run without legs. After 18 years of teaching Greek literature to British boys, Andrew Crocker-Harris (Lee Richardson) is being eased out. Unwilling to scuttle standards for popularity, he has settled for the role of school ogre. The students have dubbed him the "Himmler of the Lower Fifth...
Initially misconstrued as just another nimbly crafted British public school play, The Browning Version can now be seen as a surgical probing of hyprocrisy and emotional atrophy. Manhattan's redoubtable Roundabout Theater cast, superbly paced by Richardson, strikes a resonant pitch of humane understanding...
...SUCCEEDING, Richardson shows where the other sometimes fall short. For dashing back and forth across the sumptuous for-trimmed stage, hitting innumerable peaks of triumph and frustrated despair, the Dunster cast occasionally nets carried away by the extravagant dialogue and forgets to add the infinitesimal pause, or flicker, or tone change that would transform sheer cleverness into reality...