Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pageant of the Beasts was an in-joke, written for the benefit of a tightly knit little in-group, and virtually meaningless to anyone else. The beasts of the tale were the actors, administrators, and friends of the Loeb Drama Center. The pageant was the Loeb's great Shakespeare Festival, a project which had already alienated or attracted enough people to buy up Beasts' full press...
...DISSECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF MUSIC FROM THE PAST AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF LALO SCHIFRIN'S DEMENTED ENSEMBLE AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE (Verve). The title is a tortured joke, but the music is airy and inventive, if a bit dry. It consists of jazz improvisations on classical, Renaissance and medieval styles of music. Several ensembles, one predominantly strings (Beneath a Weeping Willow Shade), one heavy on the horns (Blues for Johann Sebastian), are led by Schifrin, who also plays an ornamental harpsichord...
...joke of course goes on too long (80 minutes), and when the spectator tires of it he can't help noticing what Allen's annotations cannot entirely conceal: the original film. It's terrible. Still and all, Allen & Co. stand to make about 1000% profit on their minuscule investment, and that ain't bean curd...
This unhappy process, says Eble, begins with parents who fail to realize that "learning begins in delight and flourishes in wonder," and who fret so much over their children's education that they discourage a sense of curiosity about knowledge. Everyone jokes about pupils who fall in love with their teachers; but, to Eble, "it is no joke-it is the way of learning. That is the advantage of live teachers and live books. They can be fallen in love with, possessed...
Even the puns and in-jokes were enhanced by the staging. Rather than bearing through the torturous verbalistics that led to "deviate Cong" it was more enjoyable, if not much more elegant, to watch the girl hopping around in the blanket who we are told is dodging the draft. And the audience's favorite in-joke was the placing of a towel under the knees of a girl lying down on an analytic couch. Apparently Wellesley, which takes nothing for granted in its students, requires a course called "Fundamentals of the Body Movement" in which towels under knees have...