Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deafen the audience. Cudgel it severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...WOULD like to write that Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, the first production this season at the Charles Street Playhouse is a play about illusion and reality. Now in Hum 7 you are told that all plays are about illusion and reality, and so to say that a particular play is especially concerned with the subject isn't to say very much at all. Realizing, then, that somewhere near a thousand students have already recognized the immediate inanity of my initial proposition, perhaps a few, extremely tentative assertions can redeem the case...
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...spring. Seltzer will teach two Humanities courses in drama, including his famous workshop course, Hum 105. He will also teach an English seminar in post-war drama...
William Alfred, professor of English and author of the play Hogan's Goat, said yesterday that Seltzer's departure will be"a very terrible loss to all of us," but expressed confidence that courses such as Hum 105 would not die here because of the "growing and real interest" in theatre at Harvard...