Word: guess
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DENNIS CROWLEY's and David Thomas's music is less likely to bring you to your feet, I guess, It's an eclectic as it should be--the first-act finale is vaguely reminiscent of "Another Opening, Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate, and I'm told there's also a direct quotation from an all but totally obscure pre-Gilbert opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan--but the tunes aren't very memorable, and O'Donnell's lyrics ("We're not exactly in Utopia. Our queen could scarcely be dopier") don't seem up to the rest of his script...
This year's seniors, though, are the last undergraduate class to come up under the old system. As one Adams House junior said. "I guess the seniors are sort of weird. They're the last ones to try to keep up the pretensions especially in Adams...
Lefkowitz has been playing the violin since he was seven. His father, the head of the Music History Department of Boston University, and himself a violinist, started his son's training. "Sure there was plenty of parental push," Lefkowitz said, chalking his cue. "I guess my basic nature is rather easily impressed. I'm more or less manipulatable. I didn't classically rebel, unlike my sister who quit playing the piano years ago. I guess you could say I'm repressed," and saying this he broke the rack of balls with a shattering crack...
...music major, he feels the Music Department, as a whole, has offered him little. But, he pointed out, "If you really want something from the department you have to go after it. That's true in most departments, I guess. Music, as a department, as something to study, is strange. There's no one method to learning and teaching music. Nothing's complete; nothing's defined. Just the term 'musician' is weird, you know.... Nobody knows what it means. It could mean you know all the plots from operas, you could know all the record jackets...
...collector, Robert Colbert, an out-of-work machine operator. He had tried the same trick without success on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon and Vice President Rockefeller, using a picture of his son Robert, now 12, when he was a baby. Robert likes his shifting names. Says he gleefully: "I guess I'm the most famous baby in the world right now. I'm more popular with my friends: I guess they think I'm a celebrity...