Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Let us suppose Harvard announced that it intended to divest from corporations which operate in South Africa, thereby joining a growing international effort to ostracize the Nationalist government of that country through economic and other sanctions. Naturally, time will be allowed to effect an orderly transition to an investment policy based on stocks not involved with South Africa, real estate, government bonds, etc.; but after a specified date Harvard would have severed its financial ties to the apartheid regime. What could we expect to be the impact of such an action by Harvard...
This gripe aside, let the individuals whose skills kept the listeners tapping their feet receive their due. The eight women in the cast generally asserted their characters better than the men--it was easier to remember them from one number to the next. But, merged into a company, as at the beginning and end of the show, it was the performers' collective energy and not their individuality that shone. Der Manuelian made "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" both the opening and closing number. It served well--the chorus has an unforgettable tune...
...delightful tap-dancing number, "I'm Just a Lucky So and So," held together a daring length of time while the band held still, but it jostled the modern-ballet choreography in nearby numbers. The ballet bits added a little visual spice to a largely aural show, and let lithe Bonnie Zimering show her impressively precise dancing--but fancy ballet choreography and Duke Ellington are uncomfortable stage-mates at best...
...they don't excite you about the life and times of their author then no amount of background information will. The staging, the dancing, the acting sometimes fitted together and sometimes missed altogether in Ellington at Eight, but where it counted--in the tunes--the performers didn't let the Duke down...
Dubin falls in love with Fanny Bick, a semi-flower child and college dropout. He is fifty-seven; she is twenty-two. It takes him 200 pages to get around to making love to her. They love each other, passionately, but Dubin cannot let go of his wife, of his ordered life. Malamud's descriptions of a middle-aged marriage-gone-sour are minutely detailed, embarassing in their intimacy and immediacy...