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...Edith E. Scott '80, another Social Studies concentrator, said yesterday she does not think the new requirements would be a deterrent to students interested in a Social Studies major...
...families earn more than $21,000 per year-a cut above the average for the typical German suburb. Nonetheless, a lingering frugality engendered by the war years pervades Rösrath and makes the residents far more energy-conscious than their counterparts in Hinsdale. Says Housewife Edith Szyperski, 42: "When we were children we had to save. We often had petroleum only a few hours...
Comparisons between cultures are difficult, yet, in broad terms, the West Germans estimate that they use about half as much energy per capita as their American counterparts. For many people in Rösrath, even that is too much. Edith Szyperski reports that her 33-year-old maid, who was a year old when World War II ended, sometimes wastes hot water. "It bothers me so," says Mrs. Szyperski, and she makes a fist to show her tension-and her memories...
...first act is staged much as Dame Edith Sitwell first performed the play in 1923 to a baffled and exasperated audience in Aeolian Hall in London. The stage is mysteriously covered in movers' white sheets, while the excellent six-piece orchestra (directed by John Major) playfully accompanies in formal black at the center of the stage. Bill Cavness, a local television personality, does the reading, pirouetting through twenty-one highly rhymed, highly rhythmic and almost nonsensical poems. The first act is appropriately restrained and understated, with the audience's attention focused on the music of the words and the orchestra...
...scandal of London in the 1920s was the young poet Edith Sitwell. She paraded around dressed in exotic costumes and wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote positively outrageous poetry and she went around discovering other poets, like Dylan Thomas, who were even more scandalous than herself. Facade, now playing at the Loeb, is the effective staging of Sitwell's previously unstageable poetry set to the sparkling music and witty and irreverent dance parodies of the young William Walton. The action, wild enough at its first performance in 1923 to have the fire department be called in, takes place...