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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, the musical theatre, like nearly every other part of our culture, has its own underground Hang around for a while in New York's Upper West Side or Lincoln Center or Bartley's-any place where intellectuals gather-and pretty soon you will overhear a crowd of animated types talking about those great forgone musicals. You know, shows like the late Mare Blitzstein's Juno (1959) or Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me (1963) or Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle (1964). (Well maybe you don't know, in which case you may very well...
...usually replied orally, the conversation books are as one-sided as one half of a telephone call. Yet they make clear what Beethoven was thinking about, and where he occasionally wrote in the books himself-usually for a comment that he did not want others in the room to overhear-the blunt style is unmistakable. Nephew Karl brings home a somewhat seedy friend, and Beethoven jots down: "I don't like your choice of this friend at all. Poverty deserves sympathy, but not without exceptions...
...have always been amused to overhear conversations about "the way the CRIMSON has changed." In the standard decline-of-CRIMSON theories, the students who ran the paper four or five years ago were dedicated but cheery young men, who always ?? standards of good taste and objective jour? ?? passing whims or pressures. But as ?? moved on it was replaced by a new kind ?? journalist. The distinguishing marks ?? ?comers were their fascination with radi? ??d their inability to keep any of it out ?? stories and editorials...
...maintains a pace that is swift without bring pellmell. (I could do without the second intermission, too, which would leave the show in two sections of 60 and 75 minutes.) Particularly amusing are the two garden scenes, in which Benedick and Beatrice in turn are intentionally allowed to overhear the contrived conversation of others...
...warn of possible threats from an enemy, whether it is intended to guide defensive surface-to-air missiles, or whether it is designed to control a network of offensive nuclear weapons. The aircraft's antennas, tuned to a wide range of radio frequencies used in military communications, can overhear conversations between major command posts 200 miles away and thus plot troop movements and combat readiness. Analysis of EC-121 data can reveal how much traffic is moving in and out of a military airfield...