Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Administrative Board's business is usually considered strictly confidential, there's already been an unusual amount of discussion about one of the items slated for the Ad Board's agenda today: a request by the Undergraduate Council for an open, "mock" meeting of the College's 92-year-old disciplinary body...
...Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, who chairs the body's weekly meetings, said yesterday that simulating the Ad Board's deliberative procedures may be less helpful than some students believe. He explained that even with well-conceived mock cases, it would be difficult to approximate the reality of the Board in two or three hours since the meetings typically run five or six hours...
Boisterous ensemble numbers, such as "I Had Twins" and "Come With Me," have just the right angular snap to accompany the vivacious goings on-but, surprisingly, these numbers are few and far between. From the wry and ironic ("He and She") to the mock angry ("This Must Be Love"), love songs carry the evening. Rodgers and Hart humanized this essentially cruel comedy of slapstick and pratfall by bathing it in soft and lyrical Broadway footlights...
...from South House, introduce themselves. #1205 attired in an Annie t-shirt and a black mini-skirt says all her roommates are participating in the revelry as #061, decked in jeans and a black t-shirt, spins her violently in a circle. They soon move along, engaging in mock combat...
...flip sides of the same coin. The two actors embody this ambiguity. They slip back and forth between unsynchronized attempts to provoke each other and cooing reconciliation, between absorption in their parts and ironic detachment. In a scene/verse called Acting, they walk arm in arm, dressed in curtains, with mock solemnity, down an imaginary aisle. "Now we are acting the partners in love," says...