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...Where the hell are we?" somebody wants to know as the film begins. We are lost in the woods of Vermont, that's where, and so are those two schloonks on the screen. One is called Jack (Peter H. Beard) and the other Leo (Marty Greenbaum), and they are both in love with Vera. But Vera has just married Gideon and the boys are terribly upset. How could she! How could she be so cruel to two passionate admirers who have seen her at least once a year for the last seven years...
...cover up an occasional fluff or to make you forget the juicy lines she lets slip by from lack of rehearsal. One might also excuse her tedious movements and lack of stage business for the same reasons, but the fault lies not in Pat Fay but in director Richard Greenbaum...
There were times, and these uncomfortably close together, when Greenbaum seemed woefully undeserving of his title. Take for example the whole first act. Maggie delivers a long, repetitive monologue to her husband Brick, played stolidly by Stephen Gelbach. She has the stage and the script all to herself for nearly a half hour, and what a static thirty minutes it is. Greenbaum might as well not have blocked it at all. Maybe he didn't. And that wouldn't have been because he spent so much time working on the second act either...
...investigations are disturbing, because Merit, which has done most of the research, has a very doubtful judgment about the purposes of college. To measure the "productivity" of a college, for example, they rely on the so-called Knapp-Greenbaum index: the percentage of graduates of that college who go on to get a Ph.D. The Merit people apparently had some reservations about this index--not, however, because they think that colleges might "produce" something other than scholars, nor because they think it might be unwise for a college to lure all its students into scholarship...
They simply recognized that the Knapp-Greenbaum index did not distinguish between the effects of the college and the quality of the students who came to the college; and so, confident that the qualities of a college could be separated from the quality of the student body, an NMSC worthy named Thistlethwaite devised the Talent Supply Index, which measures the calibre of students--a college's TSI is the average freshman's score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...