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...declares repeatedly in a voice of hurt pride. Laureate makes a miserable attempt to impress the self-consciously cultured Marcus Hubbard (she tells him that her uncle taught her to love Mozart, but in answer to a question reveals that the instrument he played on was a little drum"), but her irrepressible earthiness finally leads her to puncture the melodrama directly. Indignant at the way Marcus is treating Oscar, she tells him off the way no other character would dare to: "A Papa talking about his own son! No animal would talk about their own son that...
Ryan's Yorktown Tune. If Oh, Kay! isn't American enough for you, you can check out this "Bicentennial play" commissioned by Tufts in honor of the occasion. Don't expect any of the typical fife-drum-and-bugle-stars-and-stripes hoopla, though. This play reportedly addresses the question, "Do people make revolutions or do revolutions make people?" and the plot concerns a cowardly Boston barman who is forced to become a revolutionary because he needs the money and because Sam Adams threatens to put a bullet through his head. The script isn't flawless, but the production...
...tunnels 6 ft. high and 6 ft. wide. Even more unnerving to Seoul has been North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung's itinerary since the Communist victory in Viet Nam. Kim made highly publicized trips to China, Rumania and Yugoslavia, in what Seoul sees as an effort to drum up support for another military adventure in the South...
...cream of the 1975 crop was shepherded through Harvard Yard yesterday by fife-and-drum players on the way to two hours of Literary Exercises in Sanders Theater during the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony...
...also charged that the noise of the chanting, singing and drum playing in the reception room prevented normal functioning within the building...