Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDIANS. The title belies the inexorably arid and sere setting in which an excellent cast of villains and victims (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) is touched by a vagrant grace...
...from Falstaff and you will still know exactly what is going on. When the orchestra trills from one end to the other, you know that Falstaff has just taken a colossal chug of wine which is going to work on his insides; when the trombones blast, you know that Ford is feeling the full gamut of green-eyed emotions, even without hearing him rant about "Gelosia"; and if you are a little pedantic, when you hear the French horns bay, you will think of the cuckold's horns which the anti-Falstaffians are about to plant on Falstaff's head...
...cast is an astounding collection of pure voices attached to good actors. Heading the bill is the English baritone Peter Glossop who makes a warm graceful Falstaff and whose voices takes on the precariously high-pitched part with expansive ease. Ronald Hedlund, who plays Ford, has a wonderful, thick baritone which contrasts with Glossop's, even when the two men are singing in exactly the same range. The women too are superb with Beverly Bower and Carole Boaarde as stand-outs...
Within an hour after election by the Graduate Student Council last night, five of the six graduate representatives to the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee had drafted a letter asking Dean Ford and the Faculty to consider students on probation eligible for election to the committee...
Allen Parker, past president and a member of the GSC, said that Dean Ford's request that the representatives represent a broad spectrum of political viewpoints was important in the Council's choice. Assuring representation of the three major academic areas and finding "articulate, interested" representatives were also major criteria, Parker said...