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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prologue promised opera on a grand scale. An eerie rumble of double basses and tympani built in the pit. Then a beam of light stabbed down onto the blackened stage, illuminating the figure of the blind poet Milton (Arnold Moss). "Hail, holy light!" he intoned. The choir of black-robed, monklike figures, clustered on either side of the stage in two four-tiered towers, burst forth in a great invocation: "What in us is dark/ Illumine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heavenly Bore | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

ONCE IN A LIFETIME by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tower of Babble | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Abandon sanity, all ye who enter Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater for the revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1930 farce, Once in a Lifetime. It is well worth the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tower of Babble | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...with fauna, so with flora. Dried leaves, cacti, moss, shrubs, tree trunks: the vegetable kingdom was there in quantity. Usually these pieces were mock-scientific-prolix classifications of fruit stains or upside-down plants at the Dutch pavilion, or, at the French, Roy Adzak's archaeological pastiche of fruit and vegetables embedded in plaster. In the Finnish pavilion, a sculptor named Olavi Lanu set forth a whole environment called Life in the Finnish Forest-blurred human figures made of earth, live moss, birch bark and other organic material. Granted that these quaint vegetative trolls would have looked better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It's Biennale Time Again | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

First Freshman Eights--1. Harvard (bow, John Moss, 2. John Leness, 3. David Marcello, 4. Scott Johnson, 5. Robert Nudge, 6. Arthur Cuse, 7. Matthew Arrot, stroke, John MacKachern, coxswain Leonard Shen), 6:10; 2. Penn, 6:16.1; 3. Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAVY RESULTS | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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