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During last Thursday's seminar, the twenty undergraduates and graduate students in the course listened to a lecture on Aristotle's theory of matter, Marlowe's Faustus, William Gilbert's De Magnete--a scientific text published...
...article he first submitted to The New York Times, he says, hinged on one particularly graphic passage from the Starr report. But editors told him they would not reproduce the excerpt in his column, even though they had already published it as part of the full text of the report...
...that smudge the lottery ticket? "Nothing would make me happier than to see you, except to see you naked with a winning lottery ticket in one hand and a can of whipped cream in the other." --Text of a Lewinsky postcard to the President...
...first dramatic production in that space in a decade. Hamlet was the strongly-crafted realization of what was from the start an astonishingly ambitious goal: to present Hamlet straight and to do it well. If the show didn't yield any brilliant new insights into the classic text, it did pull off the laudable achievement of throwing considerable effort, thought and time into making the play accessible and entertaining to its modern audience...
...strongest element this production had working for it, ultimately, was the simple--and marvelously complex--power of the text itself. This production did succeed in bringing much of its power out rather beautifully. It looks as if the Hyperion's experiment was successful: they brought one of the most difficult and rewarding plays in history to a large student audience, and they succeeded in demonstrating that Sanders really is (except for those darn acoustics) suitable for Shakespeare. If the production, as Norton wrote of the actor who played Hamlet in '56 (the amusingly named Colgate Salsbury '57), had certain marked...