Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else. Harvard does not take interruptions lightly, even from on high; as Dean Archie Epps had put it during a heavy snowfall the year before, "Harvard University will close only for an act of God, such as the end of the world." The University had not closed because of bad weather since 1938, when a homicidal hurricane boiled up out of the Caribbean and savaged the entire Eastern seaboard, killing hundreds--as close as you might want to get to the end of the world. The blizzard, it was decided, was also a reasonable fascimile...
...this confusion, there seem to be some common threads. First of all, there is the Bad Start. Bad is putting it mildly for an 0-5 start when there are only 15 games in a season...
...full of talk about who went to whose birthday party and who got how many Valentine cards and who is talking to so-and-so and who is not." To those who claim that this constitutes realistic preparation for life's hard knocks. Holt replies: "The best preparation for bad experience is good?and anyway I don't want to prepare people to get along. I want them to resist, to change society for the better...
...changed their mood very much. Sporting devil's golden horns, they flaunt funny faces at the would-be purchaser. The earthly, self-amused, un-Los Angeles character that graces their other albums, Dancer with Bruised Knees, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle,once again graces Pronto Monto. It's too bad, though, that too many songs have shifted their subject matter into obscurity. Still this combo-country, cabaret, lejazzhot, album has enough winners to carry you on by the few boring numbers...
...help across the street or stage if you could stop cracking up for a moment. So much for social satire. The sets by Cindy Ruskin are good, the musical direction by David Crowe nothing special. The orchestra keeps rolling along, with only the brass contributing occasionally bad noises...