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Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public, but he seems even more petulant and petty. A sampling of his views...
Trivia. A major consequence of the new amity in Annapolis will be a constitutional convention to rewrite the state's 100-year-old charter, a farrago of archaisms and amendments so cluttered with trivia that it even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...
What greatness there is in Joan Littlewood's World-War-One farrago consists in its showing us in a straightforward way that war is a distinct emotion. One is in love; one is at war. To get that point across a director must give us, infant fashion, a moment-to-moment account of the emotion of everyone on stage, Giggles must end in sucked-in breaths of anguish and operatic voices must descend into fiish market bawl. Everyone on the stage last night seemed to have understood this perfectly, and if they did it is because the director understood...
...Agassiz, Joan Littlewoods' World War-I farrago oh What A Lovely War will open Thursday. It is the first show of the Harvard Dramatic Club's first summer season...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Brian Friel applies the saving sponge of humor to the Irish sentiment that pours from his play, and Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, as twin images of the hero, stir up a fine farrago of laughter and tears...