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...MIXED REACTIONSThough students say they welcomed the opportunity for a five-week winter break, many say they were slightly disappointed that the College administration will not provide programming next January. “People got excited, and then they decided to cut it,” says Rebecca H. Jablonski ’11. But most say that their primary concern was that not all individuals seeking to return to campus would be permitted to do so. In their April e-mail, Hammonds and Smith announced that housing would be limited to students who could demonstrate...
...According to Gershwin biographer Edward Jablonski, Kaufman and Ryskind wrote the whole first act in 16 days. Seeing the show today, smiling at some jokes, groaning at others, you may ask, "It took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give...
...composer had no love for him. This was Harry Warren, the Italian-born song-plugger who became Hollywood's top song-maker. In 1944, during the Allied air assault on Germany, Warren snapped, "They bombed the wrong Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas...
...Weld is definitely one of Harvard's own," said Carrie A. Jablonski '98, the co-chair of the class day speaker committee. "The class committee, on behalf of the senior class, is very happy to welcome...
...Jablonski said she hopes Weld will speak to the class on a personal level, especially since his son, David M. Weld '98, is a member of the class...