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...very articulate group of principals that Mr. Chapman has been able to assemble. Mr. Haskell, the Valentino (and the Alceste of George Hamlin's Misanthrope this summer), displays an admirable versatility simply by appearing in his part. But he is more than versatile: his Valentino is a first-rate blend of the faithful and the faltering, the amused and the bemused. Miss Stearns, the Angelica, has a bit of a squint, but it is not distracting--indeed, it transforms her seeming aloofness into something serene and untroubled...
Imagine, if you will, for one heart-stopping moment a production of The Yeomen of the Guard that included Doris Day as Phoebe Meryll, Joey Bishop as Jack Point, Jerry Lewis as Wilfrid Shadbolt, and a Colonel Fairfax whose singing voice is an engaging blend of Richard Dyer-Bennett and Rudy Vallee; and having in this manner proved yourself capable of the requisite amount of mental contortion, return with the now to consider briefly a new production of the Yeomen by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players that I and others sat through last night...
...forced horror-struck natives to violate tribal taboos, and so bound them to the movement by cutting them off from all else. Some of the grisly Mau Mau oath-taking rites called for copulation with sheep, eating the flesh of exhumed corpses or drinking the "Kaberi-chia cocktail," a blend of semen, menstrual blood and sheep's blood...
...outpost has long subdued the beast with a Jeffersonian blend of what its citizens call "small town living and cosmopolitan thinking." Except for the five years that carpetbaggers closed it after the Civil War, the university has forged a freedom that makes it the conscience of North Carolina and the most enlightened state campus in the South...
Unlike most Western orchestras, the Leningrad under permanent Conductor Eugene Mravinsky seems to strive less for a blend of orchestral sound than for a contrast of one orchestral section with another-slightly thick woodwinds, say, against blazingly powerful brasses. The orchestra's special glory is its string section, which includes 18 first violins and plays with surpassing balance, precision and dynamic range...