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...Rolf Cahn and Susan Alevizos. Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt have an album on Folkways; those who have seen their live performances will be tempted to say the recording suffers from sobriety of one sort or another, but on the whole it is a fine recording. Ignore the captious linear notes by Cahn...
Taubman concluded that "Although warning may be a handicap in the world of musical comedy, lively minds aren't. Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo the new Harvard generation may move into broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors have swarmed into Washington." Most captious of the reviewers was Judith Crist of the Herald-Tribune, who complained that the musical reminded her of a Hasty Pudding show. The perspicacious Miss Crist then added, "Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo, two Harvard men.... did indeed concoct the Hasty adding...
From a guest pulpit in the New York Herald Tribune, Author William Saroyan, a longtime tax-impelled expatriate, unburdened himself of a sermon on the sins of the U.S. theater. Among his targets: "fishy" audiences ("The real people almost never get to the theater"), captious critics ("If they were reviewing the world, the show would close after two performances"), and that revered Broadway training ground, the Actors' Studio ("The supreme achievement at this new church is to divorce from any of its members even the faintest condition of peopleness"). The gist of Saroyan's complaint: "Everybody is kind...
...from its branches to anchor itself firmly in the earth, Florida is reaching out to broaden its growing base. No longer does the state suggest a congeries of retired queen bees, living unproductive Jives on husbands' insurance and making the worker bees who serve them miserable with demanding, captious ways and parsimonious tips. Florida has become a boiling melting pot, mixing retired Ohioans with young Michiganders, New Englanders with Hoosiers. The state now boasts not only the world's largest shuffleboard club (in St. Petersburg) but its largest missile testing ground (at Cape Canaveral), and air-conditioned jails...
...citizen has certain misgivings. "Politics aside," he wonders, "is Richard Nixon worth $100,000 a year? I admit his chances look pretty good, but what about ours?" Waging a sort of personal third campaign, he has a captious eye on Hyannisport as well: "The choice is between the lesser of two evils, anyway," he says. "Some people claim Nixon is trying to sell the country, and Kennedy is trying to buy it. At the Los Angeles convention I had a hunch about how things were going right from the start, when the minister delivered the invocation and said...