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That seems likely. To be sure, there is much to cavil about in conception and execution, above all the fact that Andrews does not get enough to do. Looking chic and ageless, taking command without commandeering center stage, she electrifies the audience at the first-act curtain with Could I Leave You? and again near the finale with Getting Married Today. She acts rather than belts, taking time and not challenging her vocal reach as she did at the 1991 Tony Awards (satirized by Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of I Could Have Danced All Night, as "I couldn...
...recent organizing meeting, the Campuses Against War group had difficulty even agreeing on a slogan. "Support our troops, bring them home," brought a cavil from a Spartacist who said that they weren't her troops. At the Chicago conference, delegates reportedly argued for more than an hour over the proposed inclusion of the word "now" in the slogan "U.S. and allied troops...
...involved in, you guys often get it wrong." The critic usually adds that if he had been consulted, all would have been right. How a journalist responds to this generic complaint depends partly on his tact and hubris quotients. Insiders with their own strong views, after all, tend to cavil about competing ideas and stories they consider less than comprehensive. But when I run into the I.L. these days, I find myself saying, "I know what you mean...
...address another point: This is, again, another cavil of Mr. Barron's that I feel can be best put into the straw man category: "no Jewish opinion is a good one" (according to Black intellectuals). Is Mr. Barron deliberately attempting to foment further dissension between Black and Jewish intellectuals? Increased tension between these two groups, especially in light of their past political alliance, is of grave concern to me and other academics. However, Mr. Barron's remarks seem calculated to aggravate differences, rather than reconcile them. How else am I to make sense of his nothing that "to loud applause...
...letters to the Crimson of May 4, 5, 11 and the editorial piece of May 13, Which cavil about the Harvard Foundation's sponsorship of Diana Ross's visit to Harvard, deserve a response. In the past I have been reluctant to respond publicly and critically to uninformed assertions of the kind made in these letters because of my concern for the feelings of Black students who, in my opinion, are too often criticized. But in this instance, as Director of the Foundation, I am compelled to respond and clear up obvious misconceptions and misrepresentations of the facts...