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...duet: "Marriage is a very good thing though it's far from easy--still it's filled this house with life and love." For every crisis and every resolution, there is a song; but as the music and lyrics are scarcely less cliched than the plot, the songs hardly lighten the play. A few of the numbers contain some surprises, but they would have to contain a lot more to balance things...
...Creditors, which is being given a potent revival at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Manhattan, Strindberg returns to this broody theme but with traces of self-mocking humor and shy tendrils of affection that lighten his customarily Stygian mood...
...There are 100 people in Pennypacker, and if we all chip in a dollar or so, it might lighten his burden," Graybill said...
...visit, in Brezhnev's Kremlin conference room, which once had been Lenin's study. As Vance and the Soviet leader faced each other across a 50-ft.-long table, the mood in the room was so strained that even normally dour Andrei Gromyko tried to lighten the atmosphere with a few lame attempts at humor. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who had previously reported from Moscow and was back last week covering the Vance trip, was struck by the Soviet leader's physical appearance: "Brezhnev's health had failed terribly since I last...
...desire to restore the Faculty's old academic standards; but part of it, he says, was also a feeling that because good grades come so easily in most courses, students don't really think about the material. When he was here, he says, people took guts to lighten their workload, so they could get involved in extracurricular activities; but now, he thinks it's only in order to get a good grade without having to work...