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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, November 18,1983
Group supports POWs Amadeus is ‘well-acted
by Brenda Bivona
Battalion Reporter
The effort to return Amer
ican prisoners of war from
Southeast Asia is gaining sup
port from a group of Texas
A&M students.
American P.O.W.A.R. —
Prisoners of War Awareness and
Return — a new student organi
zation, held its second meeting
Thursday night.
Students organized the
group to promote public aware
ness of the need to return Amer
ican soldiers from Southeast
Asia, President Sherri Eaton
said.
“We are supporting the
effort as humanitarians,” she
said. “We are not involved in
politics.”
There is much evidence that
Americans still are being held
against their will in North and
South Vietnam, Laos, and Kam
puchea (technically known as
Cambodia), she said.
“When President Reagan
took office he was briefed on the
five top issues in the country,”
Eaton said. “One of these issues
was the POW-MIA issue. It’s
self-evident that this is an impor
tant issue.”
On Veterans Day, members
of American P.O.W.A.R. col
lected 436 signatures on a peti
tion that will be sent to the
ambassador of Hanoi at the Un
ited Nations.
A portion of the petition
reads:
“As American citizens, we
strongly urge the immediate re
lease of all U.S. servicemen and
civilians remaining in your
country, both living and dead ...
Please move swiftly to end the
ain and suffering of the fami-
ies in this country who await
word on their loved ones.”
The next group meeting will
be early in the spring semester.
Stegall is a regular review
er of music and film for At Ease,
the entertainment supplement
to The Battalion.
by Cary Stegall
Battalion Staff
“Amadeus,” the winner of five
Tony awards in its Broadway
run of three years ago, opened
to a packed house Thursday
night in Rudder Auditorium.
The play by Peter Shaffer was
presented by the MSC Opera
and Performing Arts Society as
part of its 11th season.
The play centers around
Antonio Salieri, eventually the
most popular composer of his
time — as opposed to Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, from whom
the play takes its name. Salieri
and Mozart form the opposite
poles that continuously conflict,
knowingly and unknowingly
throughout the play.
Mozart is unquestionably a
genius, but he also is adolescent
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and profane. He is depicted
arguing with his wife at a dinner
party and drinking far to excess
at another; he constantly refers
to his Italian peers as Wops —
“all in sport.”
Salieri, the composer to the
court of Joseph II of Austria, is a
man of refinement and sophisti
cation, yet Mozart’s combination
of talent with his unseeming be
havior are too much for Salieri.
He becomes jealous and then
vengeful, in the end breaking
his communion with God.
In Salieri’s eyes, Mozart has
been bequeathed the “gift of
God” with no commensurate re
turn.
The production was creative
ly staged and well acted. The
opening scene in particular, set
on a stylized street backdrop, let
the play begin on a comic note.
Salieri invites the audience to
hear his remembrances, and the
house lights actually brighten to
fulfill his wish. The effect was a
certain surprise to those, myself
included, who had never seen
the play and expected a more
dramatic environment.
Phillip Pleasants, as Salieri,
extended a marvelous perform
ance throughout the night, mov
ing from extremes of cynicism to
rage with equal conviction. Con
stantly breaking the action to na
rrate, he interjected both the
plot framework and a re
freshing amount of humor.
Mozart, performed by Ed
Hodson, is also an extreme but
more frenetic, character. Hod-
son is able to cultivate some com
passion in his often obtuse role,
which is absolutely necessary in
the closing of the play. He is well
supported by his young wife,
played by Mary Jo Salerno.
Phili Pleasants as the Viennese court
composer Antonio Salieri tempts Mozart’s
wife Constanze (played by Mary Jo Salerno)
in a scene from “Amadeus.”
The rest of the cast provide
more humor and an even larger
degree of the play’s visual style
and pacing, such as the symmet
rical entrances and exits by
Salieri’s servants. Robert Lang-
don Lloyd, asjoseph II, was a hit
with his constant ignorant sum
mation, “There it is.”
The life of Mozart proved it
self a perfect subject for play
wright Shaffer’s drama and wit.
The heated moments of rage
and grief are reminiscent of his
last major work, “Equus,” but
“Amadeus” takes advantage of a
more humorous style. In fact,
Mozart’s intermittent vulgarities
took the audience off guard at
first.
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Battalion Reporter
People who set clear goat
focus on achieving them
winners in the business wot COOI'd
Dallas entrepreneursaidlli
day night in Rudder Towfi
Norman Brinker, a
chief executive officer ofS ractice,
and Ale restaurants, Bennf andle ar
Tavern, Jack in the Box,w The c
Burger King said that most and serve
ding entrepreneurs show torch goe
of ambition before high sckl “Whei
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old, he had a successful [ will resid
route. He used the profits Sparks’n
in the
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ing and selling cocker s[
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the skins and meat.
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group of aspiring entt
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sored by the Texas A&MS
for Entrepreneurship anT s
Ventures.
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venture a person musthaifl
ponsibility for his actions. 1
A budding eiitrepreneu'l
must be aware of changing a
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won’t be tomorrow,” he sail
Changes in tastes, caloiii
takes, demographics andL
tyles are important factofl 1
consider in the restaurantl*
ness, he said. Change is noi®
important in the restanM
business, but it relates toal^
ness ventures, he said.
Brinker was a membercf '
1952 U.S. Olympic Eque® ;
team which competed in H
sinki, Finland. He then we 11 '
Budapest, Hungary, in 195#
member of the U.S. Pentalb
team.
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won and compared them Mi '
ones that lost,” he said.
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positive attitude about tk*
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medal,” he said. “I decidedii
then that I could apply thes 1
principles to my life.”
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to achieve won’t,” Brinker S’
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of urgency, have a s
humor, and are full of
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cited about life and are haf
with what they do for a livit!
he said.
In 1972 Brinker was #
Distinguished Entrepreneur
the Year by Southern Metfo
University.
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