Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...114th show, "Peace and Decorum," is a a spoof on the Peace Corps, and it is mostly institution. If you go to see it, you should see it as an event, not as a musical. With a date and a drink (which I badly needed), the evening would be much like watching Harvard lose a football game...
...three important roles are solid, the skeleton of Peace Decorum is not. Walter Moses' music is uneven: "Wander Lust," some of his "Ballet" and, of course, "Razzle Dazzle" are just fine, but scarcely memorable or even nice to hum. Alan Lutkus' lyrics are competent, but often inane, and they don't follow Carter Wilson's book too closely...
People in the audience seemed to enjoy Peace Decorum, and I can understand why: if you look at it as an event, the 114th of its kind, if you take a date and a drink or two, if, in short, you look on it as a Pudding Show and not a musical, then you might too. I didn...
...read Snow's novels could think him a dull dog, or a man who has not known conflict. But in the presence of the physical man, the "four square" appearance of a "solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature," the "solid, rational decorum," the interrogative "Mnunmm . . ." turning into a clearing of the throat, that knowledge wavers. Yet finally something comes from the man, more I think from the eyes than else-where, which restores conviction, and one knows again that accretions of fame and power have not calcified his curiosity or entombed his human sympathies...
...pulpit to police court and from the choir loft to the girls, upstairs, needs much more adroit handling than it gets. Again and again, gaiety is left waiting at the church door, and even sin turns tedious when it is allowed to talk. More and more, as virtue and decorum triumph, interest flags, color fades, and toughness is deprived of its teeth...