Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women, are job applicants just as four more are interviewers Proceeding briskly from the claustrophobic initial scene, the actors spin into a series of vignettes that are always fast-paced and often devastatingly clever. Six members of the troup standing in a line plug into each other and hum like telephone circuits while the operator. Jeanette Caurant, alternates between incoming calls and a conversation with her friend Roberta. The line of humming circuit impersonators switches back and forth with each call. This line quickly becomes a row of medical assistants passing instruments back and forth in a surgical spoof...
...that all this is the most devastating satire--it isn't and there's no reason for it to be. With television skits and the hum-drum office drama proceeding simultaneously there is always something new to look at. Van Itallie has freed the captive audience to look at what it wants. It's as much fun as playing the radio and watching t.v. and talking to a friend and reading the paper at the same time, and you don't have to follow anything in particular. Finally overconsumption has come to the stage so that those tedious interludes...
...detached, methodical demolition by the Crimson was a fitting expression of the ho-hum atmosphere that permeated the entire evening. After returning late Monday night from Cornell, the squad was non-plussed by the "road trip" to Waltham...
...poet who died young. The youth who read me grow younger each day. You had to read The Catcher in the Rye at Andover, for instance. And the new audience is never very different from the old Holden. They may not know the words, but they can hum along with the malady. My distress is theirs. They, too, long for the role of adolescent savior. They, too, are aware of the imminent death in life. As far as the sexual explosion is concerned, I suspect a lot of what you've heard is just noise. "Sex is something...
John Finley's Hum 3 doubled its enrollment this year. The rebirth of interest in the humanities at Harvard applies to the other performing arts as well. Last Friday 1300 people filled Sanders Theatre for a midnight concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Despite the turning away of 200 people, the aisles were so crowded that fire officials nearly cancelled the performance...