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Latin American lberian Students Assoc. "Savages" Asst. Stage Mngr. "The Mikado" Asst. Producer Intramural Crew Library Assistant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES FOR 1982 CLASS MARSHAL | 11/3/1981 | See Source »

Latin American Iberian Students Assoc. "Savages" Asst. Stage Mngr. "The Mikado" Asst. Producer Intramural Crew Library Assistant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE IN YOUR HOUSE DINING HALL | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and is now a professor of economics, Alfred Kahn, 63, has polished up his act. A robust bass, he regularly turns up in local Gilbert and Sullivan productions, playing the modern Major General in Pirates of Penzance, Ko-ko in The Mikado and Jack Point in Yeoman of the Guards. Asked to aid a local fund raiser, Kahn happily swapped his tweedy academic threads for the lounge-lizard's black tie. "It was more a benefit for me," says he. "I'd give up my career to sing the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1981 | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...skill. Whether it is a matter of getting the light just right in a college cloister, or of perfectly framing a group of runners in training on an ocean beach, or of making one feel that one has seen just how a D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado must have looked in the '20s, Hudson painstakingly makes an obscure corner of history reverberate in a nearly mythic way. It is lovely work. And like old snapshots of forgotten people from another time, strangely evocative and moving. -By Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winning Race | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...pedantic style: "Careful writers use dived rather than dove in the past tense." But even less frequent notes on the origin or phrases turn up interesting information; the term "poobah," for example, a person who holds many offices at once, comes from a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A Lexicographical Truce | 12/12/1980 | See Source »

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