Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones majored in psychology at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he captained the basketball team. He chuckles when recalling a phone call he received from sports revolutionist Jack Scott (late of Patty Hearst case fame) when Scott was athletic director at Oberlin. "In 1972, Scott wanted me to drop everything and come out to Oberlin as the basketball coach. He was fascinated by sports psychology and wanted a coach who could impart that type of thing. He wanted to get rid of those people teaching courses on ankle wrapping...
COLUMBUS, OHIO is Babbity, stuffy, provincial--no place for would-be artists and full-time innocents like Ruth and Eileen Sherwood. Once ensconced in a basement flat in Greenwich Village, the two sisters--one a stereotypically unattractive, intellectual type, the other a charmingly naive blonde whose every smile fells hordes of men--are all set to have their innocence dispelled and their artistic dreams realized. Along the way, however, they must pay a price in the coinage of musical comedy by exchanging cute quips with picturesque minor characters, whirling across the stage in elaborately choreographed dance numbers and belting...
Like others of its genre, the show stands or falls largely on the basis of its music. Leonard Bernstein's score is characterized by its eclecticism; complementing the melancholy strains of "Ohio" and the lyricism of "It's Love" are the Latin American rhythms of "Conga," the Irish jig "My Darlin' Eileen" and the jazzy "Swing." While Wonderful Town is no West Side Story, its finest tunes, like "Ohio" and It's Love," are definitely hummable...
...directorial shortcoming that stems in part from the datedness of musical comedy conventions themselves is the roughness of transitions between comic and serious moments. An index of Cadiff's failure to effect these transitions is the laughter with which the audience greets the opening of "Ohio"--the sisters' supposedly poignant questioning of their wisdom in leaving home...
...letter accompanied the card that Irons, then a sophomore at Antioch College, returned to his draft board in Wyoming, Ohio. "I have been imprisoned for a time because I presumed to sit at a lunch counter with my friends in the South--Negro friends. This sort of injustice is but a reflection of the malaise rooted deeply into our social system; a system that also says 'you must place your body at our disposal.' The authority of the government, insofar as I see it to be warranted, I will cheerfully obey. But I cannot obey a law see as wrong...