Word: axelrod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...
...begins one of the most venture some of recent rock recordings, the Prunes' album-length performance of Mass in F Minor, a new Reprise re lease. Composed by Los Angeles Rec ord Producer David Axelrod, 34, the six-part Mass achieves a surprisingly successful blend of pounding rhythms, a "churchy" organ, raucous improvisations and echoes of medieval plainsong. For the text, Axelrod says he "took just the words I thought were relevant, like 'Lamb of God, grant us peace.' That's awfully hip for the times...
...break between acts one and two seems unconvincing, and the first scene of the second act is contentless. But the lines, and the characters who speak them, achieve credibility and real beauty at the same time. "Baby, if you had a dog, I'd love the dog," says Moe Axelrod, the family satisfied businessman with little concern for family or boarder, to Hennie, whom he loves. Uncle Morty, a self-heritage, describes his success by saying, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.' I started from a poor...
...George Axelrod has directed the cast to act with the fury of lions loosed on early Christians. Yet even when the players flay their roles, enough humor prevails to permit Girl to join Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple and Sweet Charity as another hit, making Neil Simon the first playwright since Avery Hopwood in 1920 to have four Broadway shows running at the same time...
Even one commuter college, San Francisco State, hopes to develop cohesiveness by clustering students. It will take 60 freshmen this fall, put them together in basic classes-and also send them out on such social-service projects as remedial teaching of slum kids. Associate Dean Joseph Axelrod predicts that students in the group "will begin to care about each other...