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Much of the success of the production is due to Musical Director Landon Young. He plays the piano, conducts the instruments, singers, and chorus, hums through comb-and-tissue-paper, and coordinates the other unlikely effects that intersperse the opera. The stage direction by Margaret Fairbank is usually enlivening, although there are some leaden moments. There is, however, a good deal of tension built up when the rain comes and the ranchers dance...
...Berry has designed a striking and workable set in modernistic style, representing the sacred Grove of the Eumenides in red, blue, and silver. Its effectiveness is enchanced by Margaret Fairbank's lighting. Pringle Hart's costumes and Penny Sutherland's choreography are simple but tasteful. Stephen Addiss has composed modern musical backgrounds for the odes and lyrics that are fitting but a little too loud. Timpani rolls substitute adequately for the thunder-machine (bronteion) of the ancients...
...United States should unilaterally recognize Communist China, as one ingredient of a new China policy, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, told the first parliamentary assembly of the Political Forum last night in Sever...
While both speakers specified their particular reservations to the topic, Fairbank in the main attacked the present U.S. policy, while Westerfield defended it. The only specific point of agreement came on the question of the offshore islands, Quemoy and Matsu, which each held indefensible...
Charging that Chiang Kai Shek is "incompetant" and "unimaginable" and that the current policy was partially brought about by "China Lobby," Fairbank stated that the United States no longer has predominance in Asia. We must rethink Chinese relations, he stated...