Word: gilberte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These were only a few of the non-scriptural episodes in an otherwise reverential three-hour NBC-TV movie called Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith that stirred religious controversy long before it was aired this week. Defending the show, the Rev. Richard Gilbert of Princeton Theological Seminary, one of several religious consultants called in by the network, says, "There is much in Mary and Joseph that is invented. There is nothing that could not have happened...
Following gambling leads, the investigators also uncovered a tawdry story at the University of New Mexico that involved faking academic credits for Guard Craig Gilbert. Agents overheard a conversation between Coach Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein, his assistant, in which Goldstein said he arranged to get some credits for Gilbert by paying $300 to John Woolley, dean of admissions at Oxnard College in Oxnard, Calif. Gilbert had gone to school there for one year. The plan was to have Woolley certify that Gilbert had earned the credits at, of all unlikely places, Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. Gilbert...
...charm of Gilbert and Sullivan is, after all, Sullivan, and the orchestra for this performance bubbles. The members say that it works because they've played together for all the rehearsals and performances. Also because of the direction of John Posner, who's led the HGSP orchestra out of its mid-'70s doldrums. The theater walls are peeling a bit this year, but the Agassiz still drops this orchestra endearingly in the audience's lap. Too bad the players read the Sunday Times or Weber when they're not actually playing...
...Gilbert and Sullivan always sells better than the rest of Harvard theater. Who goes to see these shows? Administrators and their kids. Faculty and their kids. Music teachers, who mouth all the words, and their adopted kids. And just plain unaffiliated parents and their's. Yes, these tricks are for kids, and this year they're good tricks, so if you don't have a station wagon put them all on bicycles and head over. You may even enjoy yourself...
...Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players...