Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eyeing the inverted chevrons of the Army's new technician class. First Sergeant Leonard T. Berry deplored the Army's changes over his 19 years. "If I try to get 50 guys to parade, I can't do it." he growled. "They think all they have to do is out there in the pits." Old Soldier Berry still insists on the traditional Friday night "G.I. Party" if the battery's comfortable barracks looks unscrubbed. Suspiciously, he watches such innovations as midmorning (9:30-10) coffee breaks, midafternoon Coke breaks, mechanical potato peelers, dishwashers. EDUCATION...
Judges of the show, which was held last week in the Leverett House junior common room, were Leonard Baskin, artist and professor of Fine Arts at Smith College, and Georgy Kepes, professor of Architecture at M.I.T...
Above all this floats the music, most of which displays Handel's more fluid, graceful style--the finest example being the superb duet of Arsemene and Romilda. The singers carry out their tasks well; John Leonard and Vivian Thomas produce especially beautiful sounds. Robert Scher deserves special mention for his performance (in a voice which suggests the weight and power of an articulated locomotive) of a song about wine that begins, "This persuasive potable makes your thoughts more quotable...
Destry Rides Again (book by Leonard Gershe; music and lyrics by Harold Rome; direction and choreography by Michael Kidd) ups curtain on the Last Chance Saloon with the lady that's known as Frenchy (Dolores Gray) sashaying forward in a red-sequined gown to treat some of her plug-ugly admirers to a song. Within minutes she shoots the hat off one heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order...
...Jazz Critic Leonard Feather...