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Cohasset is the home of the South Shore Music Circus, which will offer a compendium of famous musicals. Damn Yankees runs until July 12, and will be followed by Guys and Dolls (July 14-19), Happy Hunting (July 21-26), Fanny (July 28-Aug.9), Where's Charley? (Aug. 11-16), and The Most Happy Fella...
...England "If you can't sing at Covent Garden," rumbled a British opera star, "you damn well can't sing anywhere." The stage floor of London's Royal Opera House sags and some of its scenery dates back to 1908, but the theater's acoustics are still near perfect. This week, slightly faded but resonant, Covent Garden celebrates its 100th birthday in a gala performance for the Queen. The generous birthday package includes extracts from The Bohemian Girl, The Trojans, Peter Grimes, Aida, I Puritani (Maria Callas singing), plus the Royal Ballet's Birthday Offering...
Back in March, the Capitol rang with feverish cries for damn-the-deficits measures to end the recession. Texas' Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, galloping into the leadership vacuum created by the White House's late-winter indecisions, loomed tall in the saddle at the head of the Democratic antirecession troops. The Capitol's leaderless Republicans milled about restively. Pundits predicted that a tax-cut epidemic would break out on Capitol Hill, and the Administration's foreign aid and reciprocal trade bills seemed doomed to hatcheting...
...critical list (exceptions: industrial diamonds, bauxite). The North American continent's only major tin deposits lie in the Seward Peninsula, and some of the world's biggest known iron-ore deposits wait in the Klukwan section. Coal, as one engineer says, is "all over the damn place...
...realistic painting. Precisely what constitutes "art" to these learned judges of others' work? Would their favorite "primitive" cease to be artistic if it was, instead, a photographically true representation? I salute Merton's superb achievement, in having shown us beauty and elegance, and I say damn the critics...