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...happens, the Weismann theater is not the only institution awaiting the wrecking ball. The other is marriage. Sally and her glib, skirt-chasing husband Buddy (Gene Nelson) have become pathetic caricatures of the Andy Hardy couple they once were?naivete swallowed by facts. Phyllis and her acrid WASP's-nest of a husband Ben (John McMartin) are glamour gone dry, a wasteland with wedding rings...
...Your letter, like the faculty meetings that I had the misfortune to attend during my last two years, exhibits unmistakably the symptoms of Brave New Harvard's disease: the replacement of social Brahminism by moral Brahminism-a somewhat more democratic substitution, to be sure, but having about it the acrid odor of political inquisition with which I grew famiilar in Adams House after...
Continuing to teach, Dean Bok abandoned acrid professorial quizzing in favor of letting students play the roles of parties in mock labor disputes. Yet he set rigorous standards. One third-year student spent ten days reading to prepare for a conference on his thesis with Bok. In 45 minutes, Bok blitzed off four related subjects and their legal questions, suggested sources, and began to structure the paper into chapters, while the student sat agape...
Suddenly, Paris seemed to have slipped two years back in time. Clouds of acrid tear gas hung over the chestnut trees of Left Bank boulevards, just as they had during the shattering événements of May 1968 that tore France apart and led directly to the fall of Charles de Gaulle. Thousands of angry Maoist students and tough riot policemen clashed in short but bloody street battles. Long-haired gauchiste (leftist) students in blue jeans and suede jackets stopped motorists in the Latin Quarter and flipped their cars over to form makeshift barricades. Rocks, bricks and chunks...
Making Out in Paradise. Company tells all of this and tells it with an undeviating honesty that some playgoers will find acrid. The five couples involved in Company are in their 30s and 40s, too young for resignation and too old to swing, except self-consciously. All the couples play show-and-tell before their favorite friend Robert (Dean Jones), a bachelor of 35. Some of the dilemmas they act out for Robert are common: a drink problem, smoking too much, trying to lose weight-except that New Yorkers have an uncanny flair for self-dramatizing such issues. Some...