Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such trivial bothers aside, Woody Allen seems content these days. Or at least as content as he can be. Rather uncharacteristically, he even seems tentatively pleased with his own work. "I wanted to make a film that was more serious than Annie Hall, a serious picture that had laughs in it," he says. "I felt decent about Manhattan at the time I did it; it does go farther than Annie Hall. But 1 think now I could do better. Of course, if my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done...
...wrecked new production and a brilliant one in the last two seasons. Last year's Tannhauser remains a model of creative fidelity to the essence of an opera; this year's Flying Dutchman is a travesty, fusing roles and entirely subverting the opera's dramatic and musical content. In its casts, too, the Met's standards fluctuate widely. It's a long way down from the near-ideal Parsifal of this spring to the dismal Norma playing at the same time...
...comparison probably also would not sit well with Will Sakas, director of the Freshman Arts Council's production of Camelot. Sakas, who proposed the show to the Council, loves the musical for its dramatic content: the tragic love story and struggle to create a civilization in the midst of the Dark Ages, Camelot is, in his opinion, "a very beautiful, very personal tragedy...
...play relying so heavily in both form and content on the power of words to have such an actor and actress in lead roles suggests a failure in direction as well. Valerie Lester's approach to the play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more emphasizing the language which is beyond the performers. Lester's pacing of the mostly uncut script is smooth and well-jointed, and a few nice touches--like a drum beat behind the duel scene--relive the general disarray a bit. Her failure lies in the casting of the show...
...power. With the Faculty Council, a reorganized bureaucratic structure, a new president who maintains a considerably warmer rapport with Faculty members, and a greater voice in its own, and the University's affairs, the Faculty achieved a quiet revolution. Of course, the question of whether students will remain content with keeping their own voices subdued remains a serious question that Harvard continues to face...