Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionary art form, although Hair has some pretensions in this area (they failed). Probably the most stirring musical that also happened to be good was the original 1932 version of Showboat, when Paul Robeson changed the racist, stereotypical lines of "Old Man River" into a song of defiance, causing Oscar Hammerstein, the lyricist, to stomp off the practice stage muttering "Let the son of a bitch write his own goddam song...
...worst failing of this production is that it violates Oscar Wilde's own "art for art's sake" aesthetic. "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing," Gwendolen asserts at one point. In this version of Wilde's farce, the latter remains a poor subsitute for the former...
...Oscar Wild's masterpiece is half-satire and all farce. Its humor is partly topical, rooted in the decadence of the late Victorian aristocracy and gentry. But its farcical underpinnings allow it to date unusually well. Wilde's dialogue abounds in inversion and paradox, in the replacement of the weighty with the insubstantial. His characters talk nonsense with a straight face and flout verbal conventions while remaining always socially correct...
Over 160,000 men and women have matriculated over the years--1000 have received degrees--to hear Harvard greats ranging from philosopher Josiah Royce at the turn of the century to Oscar Handlin in the present. Most people are surprised to even learn that the school exists, says Thomas Crooks, former director of the Summer School. "Except for some flurry on the seventh floor of Holyoke Center at registration time, a few lights on in Yard classrooms at night, and the Commencement Exercises, the program is largely invisible," he says...
...Importance of Being Earnest, written by Oscar Wilde, directed by Samuel Bloomfield and produced by Jeffrey Rubins, is being performed in the Leverett House Old Library Theater at Harvard, Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the ticket office in Holyoke Center from...