Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morgan consorts with Henry Ford, Freud visits Coney Island, and turn-of-the-century America comes of age in this lilting syncopation of fiction and history...
...opulently illustrated, often witty guide to bibliophilia and its causes (there is no cure). Author Thomas, a London book dealer, discusses everything from early illuminated manuscripts to the feats of the best printers, bookbinders, illustrators, forgers and dupes. Happily, descriptions focus on people rather than techniques. Of J.P. Morgan, last of the profligate collectors, Thomas writes with typical piquancy: "He pursued the life of an unostentatious gentleman on a majestic scale...
...academic year will close a 35-year Harvard career that began in the early 30s with von Stade's arrival as a polo-playing freshman straight out of St. Paul's, the son of a famed horseman and grandson of a lawyer for financier J.P. Morgan...
...sometimes difficult to understand her words. Iolanthe (Nancy Wilson) also has a lovely voice, though her acting is wooden and uncertain. The chiefs of the Fairy chorus (Patty Low, Patty Woo and Rozlyn Anderson) are all fine. One of the few flaws in the characterizations is Doug Morgan's portrayal of half-mortal Strephon. One always sympathizes with actors condemned to boring straight roles while others are allowed to bring down the house. But Morgan can't be forgiven so easily--he approaches his role with a set of two or three facial contortions and speaks his lines...
...Harvard stage. The scene in which two Lords try to decide which will win the hand of fair young Phyllis is superbly executed, with Jeff Zax and Clifton Lewis playing off each other like pros. Dennis Crowley mades an equisitely tormented Lord Chancellor, Susan W . Van Colt and Douglas Morgan as the straight leads have a beautiful pair of voices, and Sallyu Stunkel plays the Queen of the fairies in a style pleasantly reminiscent of Glinda, the Good Witch in The W izard...