Word: feasts
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Buffalo Braves Coach Jack Ramsay is an incorrigible optimist. At the beginning of this season, following three years of famine for his expansion team, Ramsay had hopes for a veritable feast: nothing less than 42 victories, double last year's total. With Rookie Ernie DiGregorio the best-known player on the team, Ramsay's goal seemed laughable...
Despite the distances of time and character, the University Choir gave an excellent performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers. The Vespers are made up of an introductory versicle, five psalms, a hymn especially for the Feast of the Virgin, and The Magnificat...
...first word ("merdre") of Jarry's Ubu Roi. Theater when it's working well, he was saying, is meant to be somewhat jarring and disturbing. But this spring's Harvard drama season is in total accord with the national attitude of escape and be merry. It is a whole feast for complacency. Musical comedy is by its very nature a tranquilizing force. No problem is allowed to arise that can't be soothed with another reprise. And an undiluted diet of period comedy, however refreshing and excellent each production is individually, seems guaranteed to assure us how much less silly...
...fall, the energy crisis burst upon the U.S. with the emotional impact of a modern-day handwriting on the wall. After a long Belshazzar's feast of energy gluttony, it seemed, Americans were being called to a bitter reckoning. The winter loomed as a grim season of cold bedrooms and chilly classrooms, of painful shortages of oil-related products ranging from phonograph records to penicillin, of cramped inability to travel, of shuttered factories and high unemployment. And that supposedly would be only the start of a new lifestyle of thrift, sharing and self-denial -spiritually cathartic, perhaps, but hardly...
HOMES HALL LIVING ROOM: Early Music Concert "Alexander's Feast": English lute songs; songs from the Paris theater, Medieval France, and early America; songs by Dufy, Jan. 20 at 8:30, free...