Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience in disbelief. A leader in German SDS, Wessel had spoken for about an hour on his movement, its goals, its background, its accomplishments. Midway through his speech, the hissing had started. The people who had been talking in the back began to hiss. They didn't want to hear Wessel. They were bored, they held up watches to tell Wessel that he was taking too much time. This was his first encounter with a Harvard audience, and Wessel was unable to understand the hissing, the talking, the rudeness. Finally, he said, "What is it? Am I too long?" Then...
Granted the people had come primarily to hear Mark Rudd and to see the movie on Columbia. So many of them saw little relevance in hearing about German SDS. But the rudeness and closed-mindedness that was displayed Friday night is representative of a mood at Harvard, a feeling among many Harvard students that they know all they want to know, that nobody can tell them anything. But, perhaps even more significantly--and this is what Wessel undoubtedly found so hard to believe--what happened Friday night showed that many people at Harvard like to consider themselves "radical" without doing...
...their debuts-the kind of relaxed spontaneity that familiarity with an opera house and a particular production can bring. The Jean-Louis Barrault staging required her to sing the Habanera, for example, half way up a set of tall steps at stage rear, where the orchestra was hard to hear...
Otherwise, this extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original. This popcornball backstage biography of Fanny Brice still contains lines out of the Late Show: "You're no chorus girl, you're a singer." "I love to hear an audience applaud, but you can't take an audience home with you." "I can't go-not like this." As Nick Arnstein, Fanny's hard-luck gambler husband, Omar Sharif, of all people, is only required to stand and listen with large liquid eyes. The rest of the cast...
...face holding four cards, the cards are held by a witch who mixes hands from the hand. To know Jeu Total you must know the mind of the player, the Witch of Changes. "A sullen, sleepy-eyed girl--someone really nasty." You won't forget the line when you hear...