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...into the comic opera. The rare sincere moments in acting were the most spectacular. The dragoons offered a relieving element of honesty, admitting outright that they hated the effusive Romanticism and that their ultimate concern was the pursuit of their ex-fiancés. Led by a confident Colonel Calverley (Eliot Shimer ’11), the group’s robust stature and well-timed side-commentary provided a necessary comedic counterpoint to Bunthorne’s effeminacy. Patience’s’ expressive solo “Love is a Plaintiff Song,” perfectly paired...
CARMEN'S staging does a disservice to some top-flight performances. As Colonel Calverley, the leader of a troop of dragoons whose fiancees have all fallen in love with the poet Bunthorne. William Propp wins over the audience from his first entrance. In one toothy grin, he can look mischievous and still hopelessly bemused, and he handles the perilous patter-song without missing a beat. Carmen's basic idea for staging this number--a list of the ingredients that go into a heavy dragoon--is original and witty: the Colonel sings it on his soldiers' shoulders, lending new meaning...
...leading lights of Amis' collection are frequently less than well known. One of the book's funniest poems, period, is an ironic encomium to an organ grinder by C.S. Calverley (1831-84). A typical stanza...
...past. Parody obviously demands that the original parodied should be well known to the reader, and this calls for a firmly held common culture. It persists today among the British as a form of "upper-class folk art," but its great age was the late Victorian period (C. S. Calverley, Lear and J. K. Stephen), based on a common Oxbridge education. In this century Macdonald loyally finds U.S. parodists better than Britain's best (Belloc, Chesterton, Beerbohm, Connolly notwithstanding), and the best of these in The New Yorker school (E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Peter De Vries). The reason...
Keaney disagrees with people who tell him he has a super-duper basketball squad. Says he solemnly: "They're going to get their ears knocked off." He doesn't think any of them compare with two of his former basketball All-Americans-Ernie Calverley and Stanley "Stutz" Modzelewski. But if Rhode Island gets past dangerous St. Joseph's in Philadelphia this week, they may be on the way to an undefeated season...