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...they found a focus that perfectly complements their backgrounds. As many people have pointed out before, People is merely paper-television, with identical subject matter and similar format. In the parody, the Poonies walk on comfortable and familiar ground; they have found a subject wedded to their talents. The glee, combined with the compulsive energy, with which they pursued their task appears throughout the parody in pleasing excess. It may be hard to imagine the Poonies as houseguests, but with the People parody, the Harvard Lampoon has found a home...
...just like old times. We creamed 'em." The nostalgic reference was to the historic legislative victories on civil rights in the 1960s. The happy speaker was California Democratic Congressman Don Edwards, a veteran of those past triumphs. The cause of his glee was the smashing vote, 389 to 24, by which the House last week extended key provisions of the most successful civil rights law of all: the Voting Rights...
Krieger tells the story of one particularly memorable concert in New Orleans, at a convention of the National Conference of Americal Choral Directors. The convention featured concerts by choral groups of all kinds, from elementary school kids' choruses to large professional groups. The Harvard Glee Club sang the last pieces in the program. "It was a twenty minute program," Krieger says, "and we sang really well. Almost as well as we had ever sung. Afterwards, someone came up to me on the bus and said, 'You're part of the Harvard Glee Club, aren't you? If it hadn...
Bernie Krieger is wearing his Glee Club tie again this year. He will not be singing with the Collegium; tighter Glee Club rehearsals forbid it, "and I could use a few more evenings free, anyway." Dr. Krieger, having spent last summer in the Mediterranean area with Collegium as tour physician, looks forward now to accompanying the Glee Club to China in the same capacity. "I'm very excited about it," he says, "we'll be doing some good singing this year...
...long does Bernie Krieger intend to continue singing with the Glee Club? "Oh, I don't know," he replies. "I suppose that I'll keep singing and accompanying for as long as the Glee Club remains musically rewarding. And, of course, as long as they'll have...