Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...
Despite such dire predictions, perhaps the most striking thing about the hippie phenomenon is the way it has touched the imagination of the "straight" society that gave it birth. Hippie slang has already entered common usage and spiced American humor. Department stores and boutiques have blossomed out in "psychedelic" colors and designs that resemble animated art nouveau. The bangle shops in any hippie neighborhood cater mostly to tourists, who on summer weekends often outnumber the local flora and fauna. Uptown discotheques feature hippie bands. From jukeboxes and transistors across the nation pulses the turned-on sound of acid-rock groups...
Massed Choirs. They were remarkable radicals, for they had a sense of humor and a singing voice. Many of their songs-Casey Jones, Joe Hill, Solidarity Forever-are still heard. Their goal was one big worldwide trade union, and eventually they established branches from Australia to Scandinavia...
...current crop, though, does manage to bring to the Pyramus interlude a good deal of humor, albeit of a highly slapstick sort. Pyramus' whacking of Wall (Robert Frink) on the chest elicits a cloud of plaster dust. And when Thisby (Mylo Quam) says, "Come, trusty sword," she repeats the line, whereupon the "dead" Pyramus hands her his own sword, with which she then proceeds to stab herself with studied phoniness under the armpit. (Ritchard has, in fact, introduced throughout the whole show a lot of business straight out of vaudeville and the music-hall...
...same Harvard students who speak of the "summies" with scorn admit to having joined the "competition for the bunnies"--as one put it--with relish. (Actually, the boys out-numbered the girls last year by more than 400.) Director Crooks, who views the scene with ironic humor from his seventh-floor office in Holyoke Center, remarks that "Some Harvard students wear those 'winter' buttons and keep to themselves, but some plunge right in and enjoy...