Word: feste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy in the conformist cry for nonconformity as raised by A Thousand Clowns. As a nonworking anti-square, Jason Robards Jr. is supported by a prize cast of plodballs. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is baited with laughs, and Barbara Bel Geddes hooks every one, as this fun-fest nears the 700-performance mark...
This, of did not stop the Varsity Club from throwing what was from all reports a sickening congratulation-fest Monday night. In their delirium over beating Yale, the old grads never realized that the 1961 Crimson eleven deserved credit only for pulling itself together after a 1-2 beginning, and for improving its brand of football from bad to mediocre...
Into this sham-fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before...
...guests--will be held tomorrow at the union, 8:30 p.m. "The oriental Teahouse" has been chosen as the theme will Chinese lanterns, posters, and geisha girls serving refreshments. Music will be provided by George Graham and his Orchestra will intermission entertainment by Arma Schefrin, of Widener Quadrangle song-fest fame...
...conversation and "getting the students to speak up." Beginning with the third week of the course, no English is permitted in the classroom, and he often employs such devices as insulting or ridiculing his students to provoke them into responding in Russian. The classes usually end in a song-fest in Russian, with Lipson accompanying the students on the guitar...