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...When I direct Shakespeare," theatrical innovator Peter Sellars once said, "the first thing I do is go to the text for cuts. I go through to find the passages that are real heavy, that really are not needed, places where the language has become obscure, the places where there is a bizarre detour." And then? "I take those moments, those elements, and I make them the centerpiece, the core of the production...
Charles Murray, the influential conservative social scientist, is resigned to the fact that a lot of the people who pick up his new book will turn immediately to Chapter 13 -- the one blandly titled "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability." It's a rare sociological text that gets rifled for the dirty parts, but The Bell Curve (The Free Press; $30), 845 pages of provocation-with-footnotes that Murray co-authored with the late Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein, touches upon what the authors say is a great taboo of American life: IQ differences between the races and the degree to which...
...must have taken extreme bravery on the part of Lori Park, Jen Smith and Jed Willard to resurrect. "The Square Root of Wonderful" for last weekend's run at the Loeb Experimental Theater. Unfortunately, little could be done to improve the flawed text, but the run was filled with successes on the part of the talented cast...
...Boston library's account troubled Rooney, sources say, because it closely resembled one in a series of rare book mutilations reported to University police by a Widener Library official in late May. In those incidents, a person used a knife or razor to slice out pages of text, prints and plates. The person then left the book bindings in the library, discarding some at random locations and reshelving others...
...Boston Public Library, Cole had allegedly requested a book from a librarian, who inspected it before giving it to him. When he returned the book, the librarian found that one of the pages had been sliced and moved from its original position to the back of the text, according to Rooney's affidavit...