Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...source of tickets. Offers for tickets in the temporary stands where the view is obscured at best, begin at $20. Peter G. Wilcox '81 sold a pair of tickets for $30 each for seats at the upper level of the five-yard line. Fifty dollars a piece is not uncommon for good seats...
...judges awarded the title of best speaker to Kathleen Sullivan, the only woman speaker. Sullivan said last night she is happy about the award, adding that "It is pretty uncommon for a woman to win the honor...
Indeed, the underlying problem of the production may be that it hits too close to home. Uncommon Women's immediacy to life at Harvard is at the same time its greatest source of interest and its greatest weakness. Both the all-female cast and much of the audience presumably face in their personal lives the same burning questions asked and answered by each character in the play: what are my uncommon talents and how can I use them after graduation? For a Harvard audience, this is a primary facet of the show's interest. For the student actresses, it creates...
...Uncommon Women is an ordinary living room, dining room and sofa. There is no stage or seats, so the audience sits on the floor amongst the actresses. In some productions, mixing actors and audience serves a legitimate theatrical value; in Uncommon Women, there is no purpose to such an arrangement. Not only is it inconvenient for the actors to climb over the audience in order to move from the living room to the dining room to the sofa, but the seating is quite uncomfortable when there is a full house...
...Uncommon Women begins and ends in the present, but most of the action is a recollection of events ten years in the past. To Harvard students acutely aware of their uncommon talents, it speaks of the future, urging friendships over missions and humor over ambition...