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...evoke the memory of old musicals whose books were inane but whose songs were classics in a new musical whose book is stuffy but whose songs are ordinary. They're knowing pastiche, like the ones in The Producers and its progeny, but not, it's fair to say, up there with the stuff churned out by George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and Cole Porter all by himself. Or with the fabulous songs written in the '30s and '40s by such Hollywood tunesmiths as Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer...
...operetta and, in the Gilbert and Sullivan mode, each song fits into the plot, advances the improbable story and fleshes out the characters, all the while parading its jazzy insouciance. Sometimes Ira can be just on the lyric side of lewd. In "Never Was a Girl So Fair," a hymn to Miss Devereaux's allure, the pols sing: "What a charming epiglottis! / What a lovely coat of tan! / Oh, the man who isn't hot is / Not a man!" The Encores! production, staged by John Rando (who directed the wonderful 1998 revival of the Kaufman-Gershwin Strike Up the Band...
...worry, whenever you have a major transition in a president or a dean, that you’ll lose momentum,” Maull said. “But now in the FAS we have both of those things happening, so I think it’s fair to say that this is a fairly unusual situation.”UNANSWERED QUESTIONSThe FAS Resources Committee presented its plan to pay for the new expenditures at a January Faculty meeting, warning of a deficit that might otherwise hit $100 million by 2010.“Our mild-mannered dean, more than...
...obviously service-oriented careers off too easily. But letting them off too easily would be to expect nothing more of them than an unfeeling pursuit of the bottom line. Whether or not we are adequately serving our nation and world is not a question conclusively answered at the career fair; it’s a question that must be asked and answered every day in every career...
Bush’s tax cuts allowed a fair number of low-income taxpayers to stop paying income tax. Every one of these taxpayers pays far more in regressive payroll taxes than they ever did in income tax, but this move allowed Bush to claim that his tax cut was all about the working class. Since Bush was cutting 100 percent of the income tax burden of low-income payers, he could claim that his tax cuts were actually better for the working class than for the wealthy. The millions that the richest Americans took home thanks...