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...worker bee. During his 73 years, he turned out more than 50 plays, half a dozen books, many short stories, innumerable essays and reviews, and songs as varied as Mad Dogs and Englishmen and I'll Follow My Secret Heart. He also found time to act, perform in cabaret and direct. He may have partied at night, but he always composed the morning after...
...constituency. While asserting that "we're not a splinter group from anything," Seymour Society President Jacqueline Cooke '83 admits that there remains "an atmosphere of bitterness" between her group and the BSA since the spring of '81, when members of the Seymour Society picketed outside a cabaret the BSA was holding for Malcolm X weekend. Although the Seymour Society cannot compete in numbers--Cooke estimates its active membership at about 15, just a 10th of the turnout in the election that made Hairston BSA president--it has served as an effective gadfly by insisting that Black Harvard students maintain strong...
...country to civilian rule. Within a month, Perón returned to live in Argentina and was re-elected President three months later. Perón died in July 1974, leaving power in the hands of his third wife, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, a former cabaret dancer. "Isabelita," as she was known, was unable to reduce Argentina's terrorism or its hyperinflation, and the country's increasingly impatient generals overthrew her in March...
...Stuart Shifman's insightful directing enables the actors to take advantage of all parts of the room, not confining themselves strictly to the stage. The precise comic timing, versatility of the actors and fluidity of the actions produce a completely polished series of one-act farces. The informal cabaret style provides an excellent opportunity for the audience to relax and enjoy the near-professional acting. And Norman R. Shapiro's elegant translations avoid the familiar trap of stilted-seeming pieces of localized humor. The evening of French farce at Adams House transforms the audience from a collection of Harvard students...
...ONLY LICENSE that the latest Cabaret to open in Cambridge has is poetic. The round tables covered with red and white checkered tablecloths, the waiter garbed in black uniform and long white apron, and the complimentary chilled bottle of wine are all part of the setting of Adams House's All Gaul, the world premiere adaptations of three one-act French farces...