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...believe our capacity for integration rests in [former President A. Lawrence] Lowell's vision of the social life of the Houses," he said, reading from a prepared text...
...actors enhance the carefully constructed dialogue and distinguish each scene through their movements and precise delivery. As a group, the actors have a common rhythm that works well with the text while keeping the audience enthralled to the final lines...
DARK MEANINGS still reverberate like distant thunder from the last millennial passage. There was no widespread panic at the approach of the year 1000, as some writers have claimed, but an inescapable note of Armageddon was in the air. Men pondered over the text of the last days in the book of Revelation: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea" (Revelation...
Davis frames the text's tough words with equally uncompromising music. Incessant rhythmic ostinatos reflect Malcolm's deepening monomania; the voice line shears off unexpectedly in outbursts of rage and pain, while the jazz- tinged orchestration firmly locates the action in time and place...
...Since classics have survived only as texts and monuments," Nagy explains, "I need to bring to bear all sorts of comparisons...I want to help students understand how the flat text leapt off the page in performance...