Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the course of the next several months, the group sought to maintain their momentum and refine their act. They changed their name to Sha Na Na--the background lyric to the song "Get a Job." They learned as many Oldies as they could. The choreography for their show became more elaborate and carefully thought out, complete with flexing and preening, with strutting and scowling, with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry imitations. And their costumes came much closer to authentic 50's garb, even using D-Y Lubricating Cream to grease their hair back--"a vile substance used only...
Nevertheless, for the first few years Joffe was able to maintain and immensely enjoy a many-faceted existence, one that embraced and united apparent contraditions and paradoxes...
Since coming to Harvard in the fall of '73, Joffe has tried to maintain perspective on Harvard as an institution and on the life of a student. He has never lived in Cambridge, preferring to put some distance between himself and Harvard Square. And he has periodically taken semesters off from Harvard to pursue activities very different from the academic routine. He has lived in Oakland and Rochester, has gone to auto mechanic's and welding school, has worked as a delivery boy and a police reporter...
...Because his confusion represents more, much more, than merely a delayed adolescence. It represents the attempt to lead a life that embraces many of the disparate elements of American culture, a life that seeks to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and a life that struggles, always struggles, to maintain perspective...
Montgomery, of all the cast members, understands best how to maintain the high-serious pose the play calls for. Her performance, alternating between jumpy nervousness and despondency, offers a coherence that Terris's, though striking at moments, lacks...