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...Carousel Theater in Framingham (TR 2-3577 or CE 5-9180) presents Shelley Berman in Where's Charley playing June 26 through July 1. Opening July 3 (through July 8) will be The Merry Widow, with Katherine Grayson. Also on the summer program are Kismet,with Howard Keel (July 10-15); Okla-homal, with John Raitt (July 17-22); The King and I, with Giesele Mac-Kenzie (July 24-29); and a review with Danny Kaye (July 31-August...
...gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself is a refugee from Greenwich Village). The focus of infection formerly was a group of improvisers called the Compass Players, celebrated for bringing forth Mike Nichols. Elaine May and Shelley Berman; currently it is a cabaret and theater called Second City (TIME, March 21, 1960). Dozens of satirical revues now inhabit the cellars of Chicago's Near North Side, but the Feiffer view of the '60s is one of the best...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Comedian Shelley Berman plays an office worker who decides to eliminate life's annoyances-landlady, other subway riders, other office workers...
...poetry of David Berman presents a different sort of problem. He has been very careful in writing his frankly revealing lyrics, and yet his work indicates nothing more than a sort of flat competence, as though he were writing transitions for a long, long narrative poem. Even Mr. Berman's emotional first person poems have few lines which tempt the reader to stop and read them over again aloud. His persistent awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn...
Inexorably my mind returns to those delicious poems our spiritual ancestors wrote in the sunny sixties of the last century. What a salubrious lesson for their progeny, Mr. Berman and Mr. Viereck, what a whole new world of literary endeavor. For, believe it or not, those knobby sophomores and other young men reserved something, did not toss out their inmost thoughts untempered, without discretion or taste...