Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Jimmy Hoffa was serving a 13-year term in Lewisburg penitentiary for fraud and jury tampering, some of his friends claimed that he wanted a parole not to resume his rambunctious union ways but simply to lead a quiet life-"teaching and lecturing," as New Hampshire Publisher William Loeb put it. The parole board quite clearly did not believe...
WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a three-act play that's unrehearsed? That it was brilliant and beautiful, I suppose, but in the case of A Three-Act Play That's Unrehearsed, the third act of which is at the Loeb Ex tonight, such a statement would have the disadvantage of being patently untrue. I enjoyed A Three-Act Play, however, much to my surprise and for reasons that remain a bit obscure...
...LOEB EX. Improvisation. What can you say about an unrehearsed play...
...England Chamber Opera's production of Busoni's Arlecchino and Gounod's Gift of the Gods. There were also two first performances this week. The New England Regional Opera (NERO) gave Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men its East Coast professional premiere last weekend at the Loeb, and the Associate Artists' Opera Company gave Karl Heinrich Graun's Montezuma its American premiere last night in Boston...
...problems of Of Mice and Men are different, and the Loeb's audience as one might expect, was considerably more polite. Floyd's score is competent and pleasant, and has several moments of real drama, notably an exultant second-act trio for the ranchhands who think they've found a home of their own at last. Steinbeck's play is effective enough to carry some of the rest, particularly since NERO's exemplary singers enunciate every word clearly...