Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Callahan thought he had failed to capture his audience. But a week later he got a call from the school's principal. One of the roamers kept singing over and over the song from "Raspberries." When he was asked to retell the story to students who had been absent, the boy went on for about 45 minutes, scarcely missing a detail...
...Shields, Charlaine Woodard-are equally superb. Indeed, the funniest song in the show is Ken Page's Your Feet's Too Big. Sitting alone with a glass of booze at a cafe table, Page yells out at his absent woman, "From your ankles up, I'll say you sure are sweet./ But from there down, baby, there's just too much feet." By the time he gets to the reprise, every foot in the theater is stomping: "Don't want you 'cause your feet...
...title character is a female police inspector (Annie Girardot) who falls madly in love with an absent-minded Sorbonne professor (Philippe Noiret). Together these two whimsical types engage in such breezy activities as eating dinner, singing in the rain and kissing impulsively. In between these escapades, the heroine must solve a murder case of spectacularly uninteresting dimensions. You can always tell when Dear Detective is about to switch from romance to crime because the musical score suddenly becomes quite creepy...
...Guide Course Evaluation sheets for next year's publication, but Professor Petric informs her with a trace of exasperation, that both he and the course will depart after this lecture--and besides, he says, class attendance is not exactly high this day. (Students present will later defend their absent classmates, citing the fact that reading period has already begun and final papers will soon be due.) His microphoned voice echoing over the empty hall, Petric delivers what some will later say is his most brilliant and successful lecture of the term: an excoriating blast of the Arts at Harvard, Harvard...
...sincerely believe that the above guidelines for action will give substance--a quality that has been sorely absent--to Harvard's claim that it abhors apartheid. More importantly, this proposal will place the burden of justification of corporate presence on those who should bear it--the corporations themselves...