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...knocks in its time. W.C. Fields, Sonny Liston and Derek Sanderson, have all taken verbal jabs at the Quaker City. Philly has come to be known as the urban armpit of the East Coast. With this background, the suggestion of a trip to Philadelphia should logically elicit groans, right? Wrong...
...this set, the punctuation of the music with brief bursts from Clement's fiddle or from Doc's harmonica is often enough to make simple music interesting. The rest of the songs, though bright, energetic, and pleasant to listen to are less invigorating; they are so standard that they elicit no subtle vocal interpretation...
...Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles bring any passion to the Passion, since what they want to elicit from the audience is a series of ahs rather than a sense of awe. Nor that New York, in Director David Greene's vision, looks like a city in need of salvation-which it surely...
Toughness. Good's interest in immunology dates from a chance discovery during medical school. Lacking enough fresh, uninfected rabbits for some research he was conducting, he used some animals he had infected with herpes viruses in an earlier experiment. His experiment, designed to elicit an allergic reaction, instead depressed the animals' immune systems, which had kept the viruses under control. As a result, the viruses became active and the rabbits developed encephalitis. The results so intrigued Good that he combined studies in biology with his medical education and received his Ph.D. and M.D. degrees together...
President Bok, who will make the appointment, said last week he is currently interviewing 50 people to solicit their opinions. The interviews, and the 100 telephone conversations Bok has estimated he has also conducted, are intended to elicit advice regarding the types of qualities the new dean will need as well as particular nominations...