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...present number of the animals is comfortably low. But the survivors are multiplying like rabbits, and their offspring are apt to be resistant to myxomatosis. Forgetting their sentimental attachment to the rabbits of child literature, platoons of Englishmen, organized in 200 government-approved rabbit-clearance societies, are now using nets, cyanide, traps and shotguns to maintain the status...
David Amram's incidental music is of uneven quality. Highly apt is the background for Romeo's Mantuan soliloquy: an unaccompanied English horn, suggested perhaps by the third act opening of Wagner's Tristan. At the opening performance the balance of the instruments in ensemble playing was awry, but this is easily remedied. George Balanchine's choreography is proper if not exceptional...
...enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls at Kessel's eyelids is apt to find they conceal nothing except what meets...
...their meals in serious conversation--"education through free-wheeling discussion," he termed it. "One of the most wonderful things in the Harvard House system is mealtime," he stated. "I usually find I stay an hour for lunch, and that's good. The level of discussion in Harvard Houses is apt to be very high...
...Mole's admonition to his daughter and Julien, "Don't be so romantic, you are both fools," is all too apt. There is a limit to the number of sighs, passionate leers, and little boy looks that even the French can get by with. There is also a limit to an audience's toleration of the naturally objectionable Julien, made even more objectionable by 137 minutes of technicolor...