Word: mcginleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Previous productions of The Fantasticks I've seen have provoked similar crises of faith. If you've heard "Try to Remember," you've heard the show's moral: to wit, "without a hurt the heart grows hollow." Now if you read that with a Phyllis McGinley intonation--as is often done--you've got a pretty saccharine play on your hands. The Leverett House Opera Society has chosen a different tack. The prevailing tone of the evening is a cool, balanced wit. Rather like a mellow Oscar Wilde propounding the importance of being burnished. The results are marvelous...
...equally contemptuous of Phyllis McGinle and the "fulfillment through baking bread" clique who tell women not to feel guilty about being "just housewives." Phyllis McGinley is not a housewife," Mrs. Friedan claims. "She does more than just jot poetry on shopping lists...
...Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (6) 4. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (2) 5. Markings, Hammarskjöld (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (4) 7. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (7) 8. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Levant (8) 9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9) 10. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis...
...Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...
...Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley...