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...Piano Tuner features an array of elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous journey into the remote reaches of the empire. In this case, the voyager is a Brit named Edgar Drake, sent to the jungles of Burma in the late 1800s to find a man and repair a concert grand piano. Perhaps Heart of Darkness is an inescapable influence. But as Mason settles into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time, takes the Burma...
...movies give us two glimpses of Hart: both fictional, tantalizing, sad. The better known is an MGM bio-pic, the 1948 "Words and Music," with Tom Drake as Rodgers and Mickey Rooney as Hart. There we learn that Hart was short, agitated, unreliable, full of mischief and misery - and that if only Betty Garrett had accepted his offer of matrimony, he might have lived his full span. It happens that Hart did propose to Vivienne Segal, who starred in R&Hart's "Pal Joey"; and she did refuse, telling friends, "I mean, I never even kissed Larry." The film omits...
...Pacifist Council—co-chaired by two members of the Class, David Drake ’52 and William T. Vasquez ’52—was the first unofficial group...
...group consist[ing] mainly of pacifists,” Drake told The Crimson at the time, “but as a group it hasn’t decided whether to commit itself to pacifism, or just support other projects conducive to peace...
...only prerequisite to join the group, Drake explained, was to be a conscientious objection...