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Toting posters of admiration, Hasty Pudding members sang, “We love you, David,” parodying the lyrics from a tune in the popular ’60s musical, Bye Bye Birdie??and the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) Mass. Hall sit-in in Spring...
...engaged to Earl Urquhart, a philandering suitor uniquely unfit to wed this wonderful woman. Just before the wedding, though, Earl rashly risks his bride in a poker game, and Finus wins her from him. Fate prevents Finus from collecting on his debt, and some years later he marries Birdie??s childhood friend, Avis, even though he doesn’t love...
Subplots involving Parnell Grimes, the director of Mercury’s funeral home, also compromise the harmony of the tale. The necrophiliac undertaker and his wife, who dies a little death for him at orgasm, may serve as a counterpoint to Finus and Birdie??s unfulfilled sexualities—even the dead can copulate, but they can’t. Still, the new characters feel sensationally extraneous...
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