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...Loeb gift comes at a time when interest in drama has reached a new high in the College. The past year has seen a total of 45 student productions on the stages of Sanders Theatre, Agassiz, and various House dining halls. The works ran the theatrical gamut from tragedy to comedy, and from such standard theatre fare as Shaw and Shakespeare to the rarely performed works of Strindberg and Genet...
...instill stale contentment is it immoral . . ." But a Honolulu public-relations man has misgivings: "One of the fundamental considerations involved here is the right to manipulate human personality . . . What degree of intensity is proper in seeking to arouse desire, hatred, envy, cupidity, hope, or any of the great gamut of human "emotions...
...could be expected, the acting throughout the event as a whole ran the gamut from excellent down to awkward and amateurish efforts. Altogether, however, the standard of the acting was quite high. The best performances were contributed by the members of Harvard's Deathwatch company which featured Harold Scott, Colgate Salsbury, and D.J. Sullivan. They preserved the polish of their work in the Genet play for the Yale showing. Robert Brustein, as Jean, and Carlyn Cahill, as Julie, also turned in a pair of very distinguished performances in the Vassar production of Miss Julie...
...music in Wednesday evening's Music Club concert ran the gamut from the ridiculous to the nearsublime. Along this scale were works by three B's--not the original trio of Bach, Beethoven and Berlioz (the last of whom a fourth B, Hans von Bulow, changed to Brahms), but a new group comprising John Bavicchi 4G, Bertram Baldwin '58 and David Behrman...
...Gamy Gamut. Unlike soap opera, the average confession story runs a gamy gamut of misadventure and misfortune whose-Boccaccian detail is tempered only by the bowdlerized prose of Hollywood. A bastard is a "sin child" or "living proof," adultery is "cheating." But in the end, every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick...