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Given the opportunities available now, OCSadministrators say they recommend students eithertype their applications or cut and paste text froma computer printout before copying theapplication...
...says most applications she sees are copiesof originals onto which text has been pasted. Butshe says applications for nationalcompetitions--like the Truman Scholarship--aremost challenging for students because they havethe most restrictive spacing requirements...
...there is little doubt that as a spectacle seen on stage, opera is a synthesis of the arts. No wonder an opera is a complex machine involving performances of singing actors, stage managers, costume designers, make-up artists, a full orchestra and behind it all, the authors of a text written or re-written as lyrics. Operatic work is teamwork par excellence--for the stage to become alive with an uncanny reality, all these different parts must work smoothly. The making of an opera, in a sense, is a technical democracy...
Opera, whose birth coincided with the advent of enlightened ideas in the late 17th and 18th centuries, is a relatively young genre. Opera is as "modern," as epic is "ancient." So it comes as no surprise that the decision to transform Ethan Frome from literary text into opera would be made by an innovating Harvard alumni. Written by Douglas Allanbrook '48, the libretto is also the work of fellow Harvard graduate (John Hunt '48) while the production itself is headed musically by Douglas Allenbrook's son, John Allanbrook...
...extended to the book itself, which is a collection of all the stories of Hindu mythology--some bizarre, some beautiful, many grotesque and all thoroughly engrossing--recast with an eye for the postmodern reader and his impatient but eager sensibilities. Taking a cue from the Mahabharata--a seminal Indian text containing many of the major stories of Hindu mythology--Roberto Calasso (here translated from the Italian by noted scholar Tim Parks) has combined the stories from all aspects and ages of Hindu culture to recreate for the reader "the mind and gods of India...