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...women marksmen, Lori Christensen and Janet Eck, just missed qualifying despite the fact that they both took up riflery just three weeks...
...period that the various members of the group made pilgrimages South, collecting songs, pictures, stories, and "rediscovering" some of the great performers of the 1920's who had been presumed dead for years. It was during these trips that members of the Ramblers found Roscoe Holcomb. Doc Boggs and Eck Robertson. Another urban performer and folklorist. Ralph Rinzler discovered Doc Watson while searching for old-time Tom Ashley...
President Kennedy or by engaging in L.B.J.-style jawboning with business and labor chiefs. Instead, Nixon decided to start out tough. One benefit of this policy will be that when the President finally feels prepared to ease the freeze, guidelines and jawboning will seem a welcome relief. Says Ted Eck, chief economist for Standard Oil: "The freeze is sort of like putting people in jail so they can see how it feels...
...tone of this production is set at the very outset by designer Marsha Eck's pretty picture-frame made of candelabrum-adorned Corinthian pillars, and a foliage-sprouting crosspiece bearing the play's title in flowing letters. The opening mood is buttressed by Conrad Susa's bright E-major fanfares that lead into a section for hidden singers and pastoral woodwinds punctuated by airy strokes on a glockenspiel. And Jane Greenwood, using the late 16th-century as a period, has provided dozens of stunning ruffcollared costumes...
Everyone down to the lowliest footman, maid-in-waiting, and soldier merrts praise for the astonishing presion with which the whole company goes through its paces. And this extends to the stage-crew too. As the scenes skip about from Roussillon to Paris to Florence to Marseilles, Marsha Eck's backdrops and panels rise and fall swiftly without noise or jerkiness, and her set-pieces roll in from the sides with split-second timing. I cannot recall the last time I saw a complex production with such impeccably well-oiled mechanics. If you don't mind an All's Well...