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...production is a revue of Jacques Brel songs arranged and translated by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman. I'm not sure whether the strength of the lyrics is more properly attributed to their translation or to Brel himself. Perhaps both. A strand of bitterness runs through the songs, and a singer tells us, "Jacques Brel is bitter, but that's because he's in rapport with the world...
...Comedian Mort Sahl, never slow to satirize, also has an album that he calls Sing a Song of Watergate . . . Apocryphal...
...Titanic only to have it sink again, but he is still an alternative for those weary of Johnny Carson. Although some nights of the comedy week were mind-numbing in their amateurishness, others, like those given over to a humorous look at the news, with such performers as Mort Sahl and Marian Mercer, were as funny as the early Laugh...
...Harvard's Office of Government and Community Affairs, and the Cambridge School Department are setting up the program as a cooperative effort. Mort Hausen '72, president of PBH Bienda Wilson, associate dean of Administration of the GSH: Donald Moulton, coordinator for Community Affairs of the Office for Government and Community Affairs: Robert Sweeney '22, principal of Rindge Tech: and Raymond D'Arey '26, principal of Cambridge High and Latin, have been ironing out the details of the program during the last few weeks. According to Moulton, the project should start within a month. The remaining step is to hire...
...satire of the 1970's reflects the disillusionment of the last decade; it transcends the congenial buffoonery which has left Meader already forgotten. The success of these works inevitably leaves us to ponder the price in blood we have paid to achieve them. Mort Sahl, in 1968, summed up a feeling with which de Antonio, Vidal and Roth would assuredly agree. It would be easy for the satirists to make fun of a President Nixon, he said, "but please don't cast your votes for our sake...