Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEAUTIFUL morning, the kind that signals that the cold Boston winter has nearly faded. The sunlight radiated down upon the Mem Hall steps as I bounded gingerly across them, but the glorious weather seemed somehow incongruous with the experience I was about to undergo...
Moliere's satire on hypocrisy--the most obvious threat to the formal social structure of France under Louis XIV, where freedom and order could be mixed equally as long as everyone played fair--is given a glorious vitality by the Adams House Drama Society's cast. Where Moliere caricatures human folly to make it more obvious and more laughable to his audience (so that they might then recognize it in themselves), the Adams House cast, under the direction of James Ulmer, manages a careful balance between exaggeration and realism that is the perfect medium for Moliere's message...
...diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences in Britain and elsewhere for twelve years with songs such as Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud and I'm a Gnu, until the pair split in 1966 to pursue separate careers...
Perhaps more important for the long run, though, is that Americans realize--from the entire experience in Southeast Asia--that the U.S. should not try to make over the world in its own conservative image. In the echo of this past weekend's hoopla about our own glorious revolution in the name of liberty and popular rule. Americans should insist that their government recognize the new government in Phnom Penh and extend aid to help rebuild Cambodia...
...title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni: the Italian equivalent of Don Juan who, having seduced over 1000 women before the opera starts, goes on to seduce a few more before he's packed off to hell. Diaz says that he tries to portray this character as a glorious rebel rather than as a rank scoundrel, adding. "From a chauvinistic point of view you could say, look at all the women he made happy! Apparently he was an irresistible character--a terrific lover, a wonderful human being, at least for those few minutes or hours or days which he chose...