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...anything can incontrovertibly justify The Boston Cecilia's choice, it might be the performance. A fifty-four person chorus, five soloists (including an extremely crisp Narrator) and an orchestra using period instruments performed in one of Boston's more sublime National Historic Landmarks, Jordan Hall (where the floor is radically slanted towards the stage, giving the mezzanine a definite whirlpool effect...
...play is certainly not incomprehensible. Director Massy Tadjedin '99 clarifies T.S. Eliot's '12 1949 verse play in this production: lines are clear and the plot is crisp. But like any interesting play, the essence of The Cocktail Party is difficult to grasp. Drama can be frustratingly concrete. A painting or symphony may be sufficiently abstract to be immediately beautiful, but a play requires active sympathy and reflection. The domestic conversation that constitutes the action of The Cocktail Party, sans British accents perhaps, could be exchanged in any of our parents' living rooms, but because it is part...
...light, garlic-white wine sauce. The empty bowl offered for shells was nowhere near the capacity needed to account for the volume of sucked-dry detritus that remained after the mussels were finished. Empty mussel shells were scattered around the table like fallout, creating unsightly wet patches in the crisp white paper tablecloth. Snoot is hard-sought at Alloro, however--the waiter seemed thrilled at our animalistic enjoyment of the food. A third appetizer seemed impossible to pass up. The only glaringly untraditional dish on the menu, the grilled shrimp on fennel salad is the last vestige of Alloro...
...Halifax, later known for wanting out of an "unwinnable" war with Germany, would probably have become British Prime Minister on May 10, 1941, and gone on to encourage Hitler's peace feelers after the fall of France. Instead of grim Churchillian defiance, BBC radio would have broadcast Halifax's crisp announcement of the "end of this mad war." Unhindered by a battle with Britain, Hitler would have been free to launch an even more ferocious assault on the Soviet Union, pushing German troops to Moscow by early autumn. The Reich might not have lasted 1,000 years but probably would...
...lucky enough to have a professor who will take you to lunch there today, you will dine on Moroccan chicken stew, Beef Wellington with oyster trilogy and fresh fruit crisp...