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...Penn is good (Gil Mateer, the Quakers' number one player is the best intercollegiate player at the moment), and the Yale match is away," Barnaby said yesterday. "Now we're on top, the team to beat, so everyone will be trying to knock us off. We're not home free by any means...
With a 14-1 record, top-ranked B.U. is first in line for the number one playoff berth, with New Hampshire close behind. If Harvard could reel off ten straight wins, the Crimson might get a third chance to knock off the Terriers...
Jules Feiffer may be mad, but it is our good fortune that Knock Knock is happily incarcerated in off-off-Broadway's Circle Repertory Theater. This is a kooky, laugh-saturated miracle play in the absurdist tradition. It is as if someone had merged The Odd Couple and The Sunshine Boys and peppered the mix with Kierkegaard and the Marx Brothers. Nor is that all. The unifying element is Jewish humor-skeptical, self-deprecating, fatalistic and with an underlying sadness that suggests that all the mirth is a self-protective mask hiding imminent lamentation...
Neither of the men who dominate Knock Knock is about to weep, but they are bored to tears with each other. Cohn (Daniel Seltzer) and Abe (Neil Flanagan) have shared bachelor digs for 20 years in a small house from which they never emerge. Cohn, an ex-musician, does the cooking and nurses a residual faculty for believing in myths. Abe, an ex-stockbroker, guards the shrine of adamant rationalism...
...Joan's last advice to the odd couple is "Get out of the house." As for Knock Knock, the advice has to be-get into that playhouse...