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...Sunday afternoon" she entertained "17 gentleman callers." Blanche DuBois reveres the beauty of her father's plantation, Belle Reve. Dying of cancer, Big Daddy recalls his power as king of the Delta. In his earlier plays, Williams would rip apart this Chekhovian mood music with staccato drum bursts of violence. But in recent years he has virtually abandoned violence without discovering a substitute. Drive has succumbed to drift...
...couple is currently touring the country to drum up support for the anti-war movement. They will appear at Harvard on March...
...draft has messed many things up, not the least of which is the "drop-out program." The war is on, draft calls are up, and the students who insist they march to a different drum than Harvard's must do their marching in the Yard...
Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
...headlines, there was no respite for Lyndon Johnson from other pressing presidential problems. Last week, the President took time from his worries to name James H. Rowe Jr., an old friend and political adviser, to head the Citizens Committee for Johnson and Humphrey, a volunteer organization that will drum up support for the President's reelection, as "Elect A.B.J." (Anyone But Johnson) buttons were being increasingly displayed. The President also told a meeting of state directors of the U.S. Employment Service that the hard-core unemployed must be trained and given jobs so that the U.S. will remain...