Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summer School at official functions, and so on. After 20 years as a Harvard administrator and 15 as director of the Summer School it all begins to come easily, to develop into a series of comfortable routines whose pleasures lie in their repetition as much as in their content. In bringing him here, the Lord has with some assurance set Thomas Crooks's feet upon a rock, and established his goings...
...format is pure TV talk show; the content is not. In one episode the genial, loose-jointed M.C. welcomes a California real estate salesman named Frank Foglio, who tells a modern version of the loaves-and-fishes miracle: his mother, with 18 mouths to feed one night, prayed over a quarter-pound of spaghetti. God multiplied it so generously that there were even leftovers...
...only trouble spot in the concert was the Weber Trio in G minor. One of only three chamber works by Weber, this piece changes mood rapidly, sometimes striving toward the darker musical depths, sometimes, as in the second movement, content to rely on an engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard...
...Documents Room. Where all the microfilm machines are, in the basement of Lamont Library. The Documents Room is cavelike and very cool, but doesn't have easy chairs. Nonetheless you can read back issues of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to your heart's content...
...attempts, in many of the plays of Brecht to keep the audience at a distance and emotionally uninvolved, through the use of didactic songs narrative, cardboard characterization, projected titles, and other devices, Brecht's content is often so potent that we are sucked up willy-nilly--as in Mother Courage and Galileo. Similarly, Our Town, despite its lack of verisimilitude, rarely falls to sweep us up into the lives of its simple characters; and anyone who cant sit through its (somewhat too short) final act with dry eyes is nobody I should care to know...