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...Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater in a production of attentive care. The actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands...
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity. For all their seeming frivolity, these lines exhibit a directness that has been increasingly admired ever since the mid-'50s when Allen Ginsberg and the beats accelerated the popularity of the simple, charged statement...
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...evening I walk into a room where there is a poetry reading. I don't want to be rude so I stay. A med student who looks like Dr. Kildare reads a poem entitled "Ode to Mickey Mantle's Five-hundredth...
...DONALDSON: MR. SHING-A-LING (Blue Note). Following the success of his Alligator Bogaloo, Donaldson now applies his jazz alto, accompanied by trumpet, organ, guitar and drums, to such recent familiars as The Shadow of Your Smile and Ode to Billie Joe. Since he never wanders far from the melody on these tunes, those who get lost easily in jazz improvisation need not fear for their direction. More venturesome listeners may feel that Donaldson has settled for a too-safe format...