Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably because of their flippancy, the CRIMSON's criticisms have not been taken seriously. One still hears grumbling about "that monstrosity on Mt. Auburn Street" and an occasional nasty joke ("The one nice feature about Holyoke Center is that it's the one place in Cambridge from which you can't see Holyoke Center"), but the community in general seems remarkably complacent about the Sert buildings going up around...
...present only as a sort of prose pulse, often interrupted for long, breathless silences. Harmony was so spare and skeletal that the few familiar chords struck were as pleasantly refreshing as rain on a barn roof. Melody's status slumped so badly that it became only an intermission joke-"Sing me that nice part of the thing we just heard." But most of all, precise composition yielded to aleatory music-the music of chance, in which performers are free to improvise with little control beyond their own musicality. In all the baffling proceedings, Berberian and Roman Flutist Severino Gazzelloni...
Solemn Bows. Vexations' première proved it to be in many ways Satie's finest joke. After even a dozen hearings, the music became more a hex than a vex, its funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed...
Strong Spirit. Performances, as things turned out, were as varied in quality as they were in style, and though some of the troupes were crippled by the hyperkinetic choreography that can make a dance an awkward, literal joke, others brought to the park performances as good as anything in the coat-and-tie winter seasons. The dancers suffered some difficulties-hot afternoon rehearsals in the sun, damp boards to dance on at night, and a 40-by-50-ft. stage that was a shade too small for the prodigious leaps of a dancer like Villella. But all were eager...
...joke was lost on the FBI director. But Buchwald has never been known to worry about the sensitivity of his subjects. One day he dreamed up an interview with a Presidential Special Representative and asked this functionary how he got his job. "It's not easy," replied the P.S.R. "First you make a few speeches criticizing Administration foreign policy. Then you write a few articles for magazines telling how it is to work for President Kennedy, and then you release a story to the press that you're going to be fired. The President is then obligated...