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...Berman, professor of Law, New York Times that no official objected to the content of , which represented the first social science course ever given American in a Soviet university...
Happily, the show settles down to the real business of a wedding, which is squabbling and confusion. The negotiators, who would do credit to a disarmament conference, are Alfie Nathan (Shelley Berman), the bride's uncle and guardian, and Tilly Siegal (Eileen Heckart), the bridegroom's mother. Alfie innocently proposes a family affair in his living room, with only 40 guests present. Tilly wants the Old Oaks Country Club ("Problem weddings our specialty") and 400 guests. Alfie's defeat is honorable, and most of the time it is funny...
...talented Berman is a nightclub comic whose best turns are monologues into an invisible phone, and it is no surprise that the show's best number is one in which Berman writhes about on a phone (visible), plotting revenge on Tilly Siegal. Most of the time Alfie and Tilly manage to obscure Affair's most serious defect, which is that it works so terribly hard to provide a merely adequate evening's entertainment. One innovation is pleasing: the choruses depart from the epicene standard of Broadway musicals; the members, in fact, look a great deal like people...
...seniors named are Edward D. Berman '62, of Winthrop House and Portland, Me., Bishop C. Hunt, Jr. of Eliot House and Boston, James J. Fox '62, of Adams House and Milwaukee, Wisc., Alan K. Henrikson '62, of Quincy House and Ames, Iowa, Jay W. Butler '62, of Leverett House and Odgen, Uthah, and David B. Frohnmayer '62 of Dunster House and Medford...
Frohnmayer, a Government student, plays in the Harvard Band and sings with the Dunster Dunces. Berman participates in Winthrop House athletics...