Word: hermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last but not the least in the current flock of Harvard theatricals comes the North House's production of George Herman's A Company of Wayward Saints. The comedy is not great dramatic art, nor does it aspire to be. Shying away from the deliberately abstruse and intellectual, this North House company holds to the more modest yet honorable goal of pleasant entertainment. Its lack of pretense serves it well; the evening is filled with the uncontrolled laughter that such middle-level comedy dreams of achieving...
...play's delight lies in the parodies, its unavoidable weakness in the occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta, Stan Herman and Kasper have also gazed East. Says Herman: "I like the Chinese look because I'm for the whole political factor. If it's going to bring everyone closer together, I'll show everyone what the Chinese look like...
...French economists expect the nation to increase exports from 14% of production now to 19% by 1980. Per capita gross national product ($2,064) is already ahead of West Germany's ($ 1,848). Some time in the middle of this decade, according to Common Market economists and Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, France's total G.N.P. will surpass that of West Germany. The result would give Frenchmen the world's fourth largest economy (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Japan...
...efforts of Captain Henry and crew to get their boat to water before winter sets in. The whole business is well directed by Richard Sarafian, and Cinematographer Gerry Fisher's camera transforms the landscapes into looming, threatening presences. But the result is still a combination of Herman Melville and the Boy Scout Handbook...