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...Brooks - for prodding Broadway back to life in 2001 with The Producers. That staging of his 1968 movie was full-throttle farce with generically catchy songs, and it presaged the next generation of smart-silly musical comedies. Among its spawn were Hairspray and Spamalot, shows that put a post-modern twist on the antique shows of the '20s and '30s. Back then, plots were dental-floss clotheslines on which to hang a dozen chipper songs, and the audiences were meant to go out humming and smiling...
...being a little harsh, of course. The Times' survey comes with a lengthy, elegant essay couching the whole project in a comfy coccoon of critical nuance, pre-emptively name-checking "the deplorable modern mania for ranking, list-making and fabricated competition" before vigorously succumbing to it. (It also includes the regrettable phrase "in the age of James Frey." Moratorium? Who's with me?) It's not the least of its sins, but it has to be said that the Times list is aggressively boring. I was surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail...
...neighborhood. Robert E. Cook ’68, director of the Arboretum, said that the development was necessary for the Arboretum’s growth and that Weld Hill was one of the few sites they could use for it. “The Arboretum needs to create modern research laboratories, which we do not have, if it’s to retain its scientific reputation,” he said. “This is the only parcel that the Arboretum owns that is not basically parkland.” Cook mentioned the concessions that the Arboretum has agreed...
...Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 71, “Silent Cinema;” and VES 72, “Sound Cinema.” Government 1060, “The History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy;” Government 1061, “The History of Modern Political Philosophy;” and Philosophy 178, “Equality and Democracy,” will now satisfy the Moral Reasoning requirement. Planned departmental courses Physical Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1b, “Motion, Size and Life,” will count for Science A credit. Government...
According to an editor’s note at the front of the unassuming 14-page glossy, the magazine, delivered to dorms last week, is supposed to fall somewhere in between a “serious and stately broadside of the modern campus left” and a collection of “fart jokes...