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...though not quite matched his talent for self-destruction. He was forever negotiating with a series of authority figures: God, Father Flye, Time Inc. Indeed, Bergreen concludes, Agee cast Time in the multiple roles of "his home, his school, his monastery," to the bewilderment of fellow employees like Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin and Robert Fitzgerald...
...Karen MacDonald as Miss Scoons also tries to make up for her colleagues' lackluster performances. She is, in turn, seductive and wildly funny as she wafts in and out of the room, rattling off a monologue in rapid Spanish or speaking in an Irish brogue. It is too bad that Harry Murphy doesn't even try. His character, Lanx, is supposed to aggressively manipulate the others; instead, he is so weak that he, and we, quickly lose sight of his purpose...
...When MacDonald and Murphy engage in a mock battle towards the end of the second act, their tired, feeble attempt epitomizes the production's most serious faults. In this scene, as in much of the rest of the play, director and cast waffle between satire and farce in a what should be a powerful moment. A little aid from costumes and lights might have made this scene bearable as it is the silliness of the situation is heightened by frumpy shrouds and light too bright to allow for any sense of mystery. The set too hampers the actors efforts...
Equally good are the sequences in Hillsboro, where the rogues finally go too far in trying to victimize three orphan-sisters, well-played by Karen MacDonald, Marianne Owens, and Nina Bernstein. These scenes also contain the most effective musical number. "You Ought to Be Here With Me"--a song in which the intentional use of AM-radio cliches transcends the genre as it fails to do so in other numbers...
...Crimson was not quite as successful in the longer distance events, the 1000 and the 3000 meters. Senior Felix Rippy battled a pair of Army runners throughout the entire 1000, but could only claim third. In the 3000, Peter Jelley and Jim MacDonald caught three Army runners in the last few laps. Jelley and Army runner David Fleece jockeyed for the lead a number of times in the last two laps, but Fleece eventually pulled away to win in 8:24.3, with Jelley and MacDonald placing second and third respectively...