Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, Peter Schickele heralds from this intellectual school of musicmaking. Trained at Swarthmore and Juilliard, Schickele started out as a composer of serious music. It was an accident of fate that led Schickele to begin composing humorous works. While studying at Juilliard in 1965, Schickele got some friends together and bought out Town Hall to perform some of their more irreverent compositions. So successful was this concert that it has turned into an annual tradition selling out now for nearly 23 years...
...most antiquarian and arguably cruel of ceremonies. People trek to the senate house at 9 a.m. and find out their fate," he says. In the past, the person with the worst score would then step forward and have a wooden spoon dropped on his head from the balcony, he says. "Everything's public and aboveboard; there's none of this I.D. number business...
...Macy's offer involves cash and a future stock swap of Federated shares for shares in the new firm, * the value is unclear. The two bids are believed to be comparable, but Federated stockholders have to decide whether they want a payoff now from Campeau or bet on the fate of Macy's-Federated...
...Soviet's seductive charm in comparison with his American colleague's priggishness. Sam Waterston makes the U.S. delegate appealing even when he is obsessive. This gifted but erratic actor hits a career high with a scene in which he reveals the personal strain of feeling responsible for the fate of mankind. As the Soviet, Robert Prosky has most of the more poetic speeches, but he looks lumpishly like Khrushchev and erupts in rage just often enough to arouse an onlooker's caution...
...this production the characters' differences remain vivid, but their common fate is more clear. Each has a conscience; each devotes his life to the paramount issue of survival; yet neither can feel any sense of accomplishment, or any hope of guiding his country out of the woods of Mutual Assured Destruction. Their highest achievement is to keep talking. As the Soviet says in a poignant valedictory, "Our time together has been a very great failure. But -- a successful...