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...tempting to speculate, especially since writer-director Rebecca Miller is so quick to deflect the subject, that Jack could embody some aspect of her father Arthur. Tempting but fruitless, since the real kinship is with the work of another playwright, dead nearly 500 years. Jack is a blend of Prospero, lord of his fantasy island, and Lear, the mad king with a loving daughter. Rose is his Miranda, his Cordelia...
...years since the reviled Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed by firing squad, but their ghosts linger on. The couple has been the subject of several books, TV programs and documentaries. Now, Ceausescu's 25-year rule has been put onstage: A Day in the Life of Nicolae Ceausescu opened in February at the Teatrul Mic (Small Theater) in Bucharest to sell-out crowds and positive reviews. The play mocks the Ceausescus' megalomania and drive for absolute power, but it also makes the point that, for better or worse, the despised couple put Romania...
...discuss his father's suicide with his few friends, but he discussed the subject online. He argued about the courage in not only accepting death but also bringing about your own. Those who disagree about the virtue of suicide, he wrote, "have never dealt with people who HAVE faced the kind of pain that makes you [physically] sick at times, makes you so depressed you can't function, makes you so sad and overwhelmed with grief that eating a bullet or sticking your head in a noose [seems] welcoming." Months later, he wrote about slicing his wrist with...
...most important projects facing administrators, the Faculty, and students today. Thus far, the Committee on General Education has made some encouraging decisions for the future of Harvard undergraduate education. The committee’s preliminary assessments indicate an advocacy of distribution requirements over three general subject areas, as well as two mandatory Harvard College Courses that will be “broad in scope and ambition.” But while distribution requirements will allow for more student freedom in class choice, the committee’s failure to define exactly what a Harvard College Course will entail is worrying...
Because the backs of Apley Court and Claverly will be subject to construction noise during the Hasty Pudding building renovations, slated to begin this summer, 56 beds in these two residences will go empty next year...