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GILBERT AND SULLIVAN are among the most important of the minor pleasures of life, and Harvard would be a spiritually poorer place without its G & S society. Like any company devoted to performing a canon of works over and over, some years it must forego the juiciest operas and stick with the second-rate. But The Mikado (even if it's not quite as good as Patience) is the traditional favorite, the old chestnut by which the rest are judged. Its production is like Hamlet at Stratford or Casablanca at the Brattle Square. This Mikado, though, is hardly a high...
...Paulist Center Community in Boston, scene of the third-and by far the largest -National Conference for Divorced Catholics. Some 200 women and 100 men-a number of them already remarried-turned up to talk out their problems. They also endorsed a proposal by Monsignor Stephen Kelleher, a Catholic canon lawyer, that the church allow Catholics "to divorce and remarry openly and wholesomely in Christ...
When the chronicler decides to develop these allusions to the canon into important plot devices, they are terrific. In the original, neither Holmes's cocaine consumption nor the intelligence of Mycroft Holmes was a significant subject, although both matters have since tantalized all inquisitive Sherlockians. In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, they have flowered into captivating themes...
...what they have lost: their lovers, their jewels, their geese, their clerkships, their sense of proportion--and Holmes is the rare mind who can find his way about. No wonder our author feels out of place in Vienna and slowly molds it back into the London of the canon. He homes in on squalid quarters and warehouses by the river and at last even transforms Freud's apartment at Bergasse 19 from a sedate and bookish settlement into the familiar malodorous and cluttered Holmes thinktank...
...aloofness. For instance, in spite of his skillful story, the author endeavors to give the piot a fine little flaw (involving the two women of the adventure). In addition, some of his sentences are disjointed in a profoundly jarring way, as if they have been lifted straight from the canon and scrambled slightly to fit the story here...