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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior Peter Pembroke Smith, playing at the No. 1 position with the same elan that Confederate drummer boys kept picking up the shredded flag at Gettysburg, shot what is quaintly referred to in modern golfing lexicon as an "Olds-mobile." That is, the freckle-faced Smith rolled home with...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

Rome and Louis XV France and Jacobean England and Renaissance Vienna... another Harvard musical confection is modern in comparison. I say "in comparison," because some may consider any play dealing with the Washington Senators to be just this side of ancient history. Never mind--Damn Yankees may be dated, but it boasts tunes like "You've Gotta Have Heart," "Whatever Lola Wants," "The Good Old Days" and "Goodbye Old Girl," which is more than you can say of the Globe sports pages. As you might expect, a show mixing Faust and the Yankees was combustible stuff on Broadway...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Just Desserts | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...also been more imaginative and original in its choice of programs, performing both modern works and less famous pieces by famous composers. The Orchestra continues this practice this weekend in its final concert of the season, an unusual program of Haydn, Kirchner and Mahler. James Yannatos will conduct Haydn't Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell"), and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 ("Titan"); Kirchner will be the guest conductor for his own "Music for Orchestra." The Mahler deserves close listening, expecially if you've never heard his orchestral works before; it's an interesting prelude to his even more mammoth later symphonies...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: The Glee Club's Bach, but the HRO's in Haydn | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...cast's defense, however, it should be noted that some of Middleton's lines would draw nothing but laughter from modern audiences, even in the hands of brilliant performers. And at some moments the Leverett House group does give us a taste of sensational horror. De Flores returns to Beatrice after the murder and presents her with the severed ring-cum-finger, still bleeding in a white handkerchief. Both Terris and Montgomery play the tableau to the hilt, he leering, she screaming. Afterwards, the tension becomes oppressive as the walks slowly, step by step across the tiny stage towards...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Blood Without Guts | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Even though in this case the laws may not all have been recognized yet by modern science, they are available in the T.M. practice just as other physical laws are available, by direct experience. Likewise, all the other unusual abilities enlivened though the T.M. program are based on the apprehension of definite laws of nature, not the contradiction of them...

Author: By Kenneth G. Walton, | Title: The Potentials of T.M. | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

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