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...turmoil of the 1960s, exploring dislocations between generations, races and cultures. Lev, a Russian dissident, joins his family in the U.S. after 20 years of imprisonment. He finds that his disaffected son Yuri is entangled through a girlfriend in a feud with a Muhammad Ali-like superstar named Olympion. The feud erupts in a ritualistic race riot in which Yuri is nearly killed. Under its impact, all the relationships in the opera are splintered into despair and confusion...
...company's director, Sarah Caldwell. She staged the action scenes vividly, with swirling movement, loud speakers, sirens and flashing lights and kept the quiet moments simple and suit ably spacious in their loneliness. The cast - including Richard Fredricks as Lev, Jake Gardner as Yuri and Curtis Rayam as Olympion - sang with conviction. Two in particular matched the aplomb of Caldwell's conducting: Arlene Saunders, in lustrous voice as Nadia, and Cynthia Clarey, warmly sympathetic as a nurse who serves as a peacemaker...
...their final tuneup for next weekend's meeting with the Olympion-laden Yalies, Harvard's swimmers laced Columbia's apparently anesthetized Lions 60-35 Saturday afternoon at the IAB. Crimson coach Bill Brooks could have run up the score, but gave his second-line swimmers their last chance of the season to score instead...
...Olympion Theatron and The Battle of Olympia," by Louis Dyer '74; "The Cleominades and Related Folk-Tales," by C. H. Grandgent '83; "Foreign Associates of National Societies," by E. C. Pickering '65; "New Laboratory Manual of Physics," by S. E. Coleman '97; "A Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology," by W. F. Ganong '87; Peace, Power, and Plenty," by O. S. Marden, M.D. '82; "Modern German Prose: A Reader for Advanced Classes," by A. D. Nichols '91; "The Spell," by W. D. Orcutt...
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