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By Richard S. Beck
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Here is what J. Robert Oppenheimer (Simon J. Williams ’09) says when he hears the death toll at Hiroshima: “Some
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By Richard S. Beck
Monday, November 17, 2008
A few Tuesdays ago, a little after 11 at night, a bottle of champagne was making the rounds. Everyone was
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By Richard S. Beck
Friday, October 31, 2008
THE WAY OF THE WORLD: A STORY OF TRUTH AND HOPE IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM by Ron Suskind New
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By Richard S. Beck
Monday, May 5, 2008
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”—Stephen Sondheim’s big, bloody masterpiece of a musical—thrashes around on the stage with
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By Richard S. Beck
Thursday, February 7, 2008
When I was in middle school, there was a television station called “The Box.” A kind of mass-scale precursor to
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By Richard S. Beck
Monday, January 14, 2008
It’s usually a good rule of thumb that multi-part stories should get out while the getting’s good. Consider the ugly
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By Richard S. Beck
Thursday, November 15, 2007
“Emergency & I,” the fourth album by Washington, D.C., quartet the Dismemberment Plan, is my favorite high school record. I
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By Richard S. Beck
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Shakespeare is so pervasive, so entrenched in Western cultural life, that his plays can sometimes be overzealously adopted by directors
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By Richard S. Beck
Monday, October 22, 2007
“You see this pool? It cost a pretty penny, I can tell you.” Yes indeed, King Midas. I do see
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By Richard S. Beck
Thursday, September 27, 2007
So much crazy beef, you guys! The recent sales war between oft-whiny pop star Kanye West and frowny-faced 50 Cent
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