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...verbal facility (he was the quickest ad-libber in the business) and openness to edgy comedians like Sahl and Bruce, Allen was no radical. He was the ideal host: a mediator, a moderator. When he wasn't talking, he actually listened to his guests. When he wasn't being funny, he could be resolutely serious; "The Tonight Show" occasionally devoted entire evenings to one guest (Carl Sandburg) or discussion of one topic (civil rights). Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger...
...Schuller has no particular sound or aesthetic ideal when it comes to Third Stream music. "It's totally open; that's the whole beauty. I'm not interested in anything that's closed. We all approached it in different ways. It's a music which enables the creation of unique musical profiles." Indeed, compositions as diverse as Milton Babbitt's dodecaphonic All Set and John Lewis' Three Little Feelings are both considered Third Stream. Reflecting on what has become of the movement, Schuller says, "Now it's become like 10,000th stream, because ethnic and folk and vernacular music...
...theater itself offers an ideal setting for the production. Janie Howland's design is such that the Agassiz Theater looks like an extension of her set, which depicts a sitting room in the Sidley Park manor house. In the 19th-century scenes, 23-year-old tutor Septimus Hodge (Austin Guest '04) instructs 13-year-old Thomasina Coverly (Sarah Thomas '04), the precocious daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, the aristocrats who own Sidley Park. Jana Howland's costume design evokes the complexity of period dress through relatively simple outfits, which seem credible but not overwrought. In the present-day scenes...
Still, despite the change, graduate students and professors alike say the department is not in an ideal place yet. Students are still under pressure to produce results, knowing that if they don't, both their own future and their advisor's reputation will suffer...
...really was a dark and stormy night for trick-or-treaters in Cambridge this Halloween. With the less-than-ideal weather, events were a little less festive than normal, as most people focused on getting to where they were going...