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What goes on in a language laboratory?:
Say the words language laboratory. What comes to
mind? Students clad in long white coats peering through microscopes
at the supreme expression of creative consciousness - words?
Scientists grouped together, conducting experiments on the
vibrations of the vocal codes of the homo sapient? Bunsen burners,
beakers, pipettes? Far from it, so I learn last Monday.
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Greek tragedy Sri Lankan style
Namel Weeramuni's Maadyawediyakuge Asipatha"
(The Journalist's Sword), is not that kind of production, and in
fact, unflinchingly presents subjects that many would choose to
avoid in the best of times: the use of torture against detainees and
the importance of preserving human rights in times of political
chaos, terrorism and war. It is a courageous production by a veteran
playwright and producer, and it is arguably his best.
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