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...relations drawn in literature between our own experience and its intelligible representation. That Sir Thomas Browne is now studied in universities as a specimen of English 17th century prose doesn't concern the reader, who turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before the landscape we inhabit: these are all sensations which, like the reader's bookshelves, belong to some taxonomic order...
...Ford with the Pinto, American Motors spent a remarkably low $5,000,000 and simply cut down the Hornet. As a result, the company produces the only subcompact with a six-cylinder engine (the others have four cylinders). Its latest gimmick is to offer optional denim upholstery by Levi Strauss. Together, the Hornet and Gremlin ring up two-thirds of American Motors' car sales...
YALE-BROWN -- When Yale's elite secret society. Skull and Bones, tapped the mythical Eli football hero, Dink Stover, in 1911, he said it was the biggest thrill of his life. When Skull and Bones became liberal in 1948 and tapped Yale's great black halfback. Levi Jackson, he rejoiced. "Thank heavens, my name isn't Jackson Levi." But in 1971 when Skull and Bones tapped Yale's present hot shot half back. Dick Jauron, who broke Jackson's all-time rushing record two weeks ago, Jauron told Skull and Bones to buzz off. "They don't even have...
...hero of brief acquaintance, the swashbuckling Marcus Darnley, is really, and only, her friend's husband Hector. As Ellie's meddling friend Hesione and her sister Ariadne, two other Matchmaker women--Patricia Falkenhain and Joanne Hamlin respectively--are aptly bewitching, and more convincing than they were as Dolly Levi and Mrs. Molloy. Both emit what Hector calls the "diabolical family fascination," one with "Bohemian," the other with "respectable" playfulness...
Both Patricia Falkenhain as the good-hearted but overwhelmingly managerial Dolly Gallagher Levi, who schemes to put Vandergelder's life in order and his money in circulation, and Robert Ferringer as Vandergelder himself, turn in polished performances. However, they too suffer from the production's overall tone and from a too-hurried pace (perhaps aggravated by opening night uncomfortableness...