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...text proceeds with a rejection of "the tired rhetoric of 'change." In this advertisement, that overused word has been replaced by euphemistic counterparts, "Re-evaluation" and "reform." Generalities abound here, just as in any good campaign...
...text says, "There is no reason to believe that things must remain the way they are." This statement should first be applied to the Council itself. The organization does not have to exhort students to join in its "crusade"; the Council is ultimately accountable to students anyway. If undergraduates didn't offer their $20 donations--yes, donations, though they were jokingly called "tax dollars" at the Re-evaluation Committee meeting--the Council would have no money. If you don't think the Council is doing its job, send an unmistakable message by withdrawing the part of your $20 earmarked...
...show has the quasi-official cooperation of the Roman Catholic Church: the English text is by Monsignor Michael Wrenn, special consultant for religious education to John Cardinal O'Connor. But it is also being marketed to Protestant denominations. To cover all bases, the program includes a statement from the Anti-Defamation League noting the history of anti-Semitism in passion plays and saluting the "message of tolerance" conveyed by the tour's U.S. packager, Radio City Music Hall Productions. The 58-member cast includes several agnostics and Muslims, according to Jean Marie Lamour, 29, who plays Christ. But, he adds...
...text is sometimes magisterially suited to the operatic background music. But it is often cumbersome. (Sample: "From that day onward, they set about plotting to do away with him. On his part, Jesus refrained from coming and going freely among the people.") When Jesus preaches, the audience hears an inert medley of greatest hits -- aphorisms strung together without logic or sequence...
Uphoff also ably maintains the balance between the literal Elizabethan text and the modern preppie kindergarten created in this production. For example, it makes perfect sense in this version that the two main courtiers, Berowne and Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...