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There were other, different reactions to the surprising outbreak of violence and hatred in the cradle of American liberty. In the South, embittered whites who had resisted integration in the sixties now pointed with undisguised glee to the hypocrisy of a battle over busing in the birthplace of Abolitionism, and a center for modern freedom riders and civil rights advocates. Some newspapers noted wryly that forced desegregation had occured with less friction in areas of the Deep South than in the only state that went for McGovern in 1972. Bostonians, it seemed, were hypocrites at heart...
Henry and Eleanor's sons may not exactly be lovable, but they're far from dull. Daniel Sherman plays John, Henry's favorite, very broadly, with an almost farcical glee. As "the family nothing," nicknamed a "walking pustule" by his brother Richard, Sherman gets to deliver such prize lines as "You turd." and "You're a stinker and you stink." In contrast to Sherman's comic posturing, Eric Luftman acts Richard Lionheart, Eleanor's darling, with straight-faced sobriety. Whether stiffly demanding his rights or reviling the rest of the family, he is a model of sullen, subdued rage...
...Lord) and the Resurrection (Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down). The company erupts in Choreographer Talley Beatty's dance explosion of joy. This is much like the New Orleans ritual of the funeral parade - all dirge on the way to the cemetery and unholy glee on the way back to town...
...Glee Club jets from Bonn to Karachi...
...such a rapid transformation? Two factors seem to have benefited the HRO. The first, paradoxically, resulted from the difficulty of HRO's December season. (In addition to the concert on Saturday evening, HRO will collaborate on December 11 and 12 with the Harvard Glee Club, Collegium Musicum, and the Radcliffe Choral Society in a performance of Handel's Messiah.) The amount of rehearsal time needed for both these events necessitated HRO's fielding a less than full-size orchestra on Saturday. The resulting sound, while somewhat lighter and more restrained than usual, was unusually clear and coherent...