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...some witty lyrics and a lot of eager mugging and gesticulating more than carry the songs. Particularly amusing is the whole subplot of a staged "rape" (a lengthy insertion in the program apologizes for the word, and attempts to put it in historical context). Staged by the fathers (Douglas Freeman and Bob Carey)--who, it turns out, really favor union--the rape is designed to bring the two young people together...
...Time for Tears, Freeman...
...Time for Tears, Freeman...
...written today, and its sensibilities are as wise as our own. A scene in which a cadet shows off his skill with an airplane for his sweetheart from the girls' school begins with the wide-eyed enthusiasm of the era, but just a few words later and Freeman is describing the nosedive with modern phallic abandon. Later on, a troubled character exclaims that not even "Professor Freud" could explain his malady. Freeman seems to suggest ironically that perhaps he could...
...story is nostalgia updated. The reader is given a tale of a time long ago, but gently prodded to make sense of it in a modern context. Yet despite the fact that Freeman has our values and knows the same literary buzz words we do, she succeeds in re-creating an era on its own terms--an era for which Freud had no answers, when a young lady's unchaperoned absence raised eyebrows, and when Easter egg hunts were actually...