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...other hand, the sizeable musical score composed by Doris Schwerin is inept beyond belief, despite the announced research into foreign musical styles. The instrumentation calls for recorder, cornet, sackbut (ancestor of the trombone), 'cello, percussion, and piano (if there's any instrument ill-suited to the out-of-doors and to travel, it's the piano). One easily grasps that this score is meant to be satirical. But satirical music, like any other kind, can be good or bad. This is bad. (Having myself composed the score for the 1954 production of Marco, I know well what the problems...
Brooks will use second and third-liners against the inept New Yorkers in every event except the butterfly, in which Harry Turner will swim for the Crimson, and the 200-and-500-yard freestyles, which will see Dave Abramson on the starting block...
...Dominican Republic has embarrassed the U.S. for decades. After the U.S.-encouraged assassination of Dictator Trujillo in 1961, the U.S. in 1962 ardently supported Author Juan Bosch, an exile for 24 years, in presidential elections. He won, then allowed Dominican Communists to organize openly and proved to be inept. Fed up, the Dominican army threw Bosch out, but the U.S.-with a fixed policy in favor of constitutional government even when it is bad-broke off relations with the junta. Later it got promises that there would be free elections, and relations were restored. But U.S. Ambassador John Bartlow Martin...
...Broadway does things by halves most of the time, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and fascinating. A playwright may get his hands on a fresh or exciting theme, but through clumsy craftsmanship, inept direction or an amateurish cast, the stage effect will be fumbled. Conversely, acting skills and staging techniques of a high order will sometimes be lavished on trivia, or the feeblest works of fine playwrights, or plays on tired subjects...
Harvard was quite inept itself during most of the ensuing five minute penalty to Coupe. Finally, at 7:42, Burnes deflected in a Bill Fryer slap shot. Sahlin also assisted...