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...participation in the U.C. The Democratic and Republican Clubs have impressively improved their organization and membership in the last few years, but the experiences they and political campaigns offer remain elements of much larger organizations. The Model Whatever groups, brilliant at what they do, are fundamentally institutions of something grander...
This history of losses has Luzak grasping for a short-term goal (Beat Yale!) en route to a grander challenge (the Ivy title...
...fouled up on a far grander scale than her confusion, misunderstanding, sexual hangups and titillation and massacre of the English language and its syntax could ever explain. She went into Jet of Blood expecting to see Guys and Dolls. Her comments about acting and plot, when applied to a surrealist play, carry about as much weight as complaints about the temperature when reviewing an art show. Ms. S. had the opportunity to read the play and comment on how Gammons successfully or unsatisfactorally handled the demands of the script Artaud called "unstageable." Then maybe she could think...
Playwright George C. Wolfe, best known for his unsparing satire in The Colored Museum, plainly has grander ambitions in mind for Jelly's Last Jam, a biography of composer and performer Jelly Roll Morton. The show is as much a review of Morton's racial politics and ethnic fealty as of his musical contribution as the asserted "inventor of jazz." The central plot point is that Morton was of mixed-race Creole ancestry and prided himself on his relative whiteness, even while immersing himself in, and transforming, black music. The show's theme is that neither he nor any black...
...French naturalist Henri Mouhot came upon an enchanting temple buried in the jungle of western Cambodia. It thrust spires of finely carved sandstone into the sky, and its open galleries held an artistic treasure: more than a mile of delicate bas-relief stone panels. "It is grander than anything left us by Greece and Rome," wrote Mouhot in his diary...