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...psychedelic music has mushroomed to enormous proportions and now even includes jokes on itself by goofy groups like the Blues Magoos, who got in their first big licks with Psychedelic Lollipop. The five Magoos like to think that their kaleidoscopic screens of sound resemble a traffic jam in Times Square; they should be so lyrical...
...Family Day crowd got more than runs galore for their money. Harvard chipped in four miscues, bringing the game total to 13. Harvard captain Joe O'Donnell pulled off Harvard's third hidden ball trick of the season to help bail McCandlish out of an early jam, and the base umpire got hit in the shoulder by a line drive. Everyone agreed that he was just part of the field...
...Queen Elizabeth, whose maiden trip to New York in 1940, coming as it did after the outbreak of World War II, was shrouded in secrecy. The Queens served as troop ships throughout the war, eluding German submarines and planes to carry as many as 15,000 jam-packed G.l.s on a single voyage...
When the master of ceremonies suggested that Robert Vaughn's speech on Vietnam would move them to "out-rage and indignation," the students in Emerson Hall laughed for a full minute. "I'm serious," pleaded the master of ceremonies. More laughter. Napoleon Solo was in another jam...
...Jam on Jam. The stage was bare, the costumes were rehearsal-type togs in grey, white and black. "If you combine sumptuous sets and costumes with Mahler," explains MacMillan, "you get something like jam on jam." A tenor and a mezzo-soprano sang the vocal parts from opposite sides of the proscenium, while onstage dancers representing such allegorical figures as Youth, Beauty and Everyman traced a melange of MacMillan movements that seemed to draw equally on classical, modern and Chinese dance styles...