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...members of the Harvard golf team awoke yesterday morning to hear the presistent patter of rain drops percolating down their windowpanes. It was with inutterable sadness that the Crimson linksters returned to their anonymous beds assured that their opening day match against Tufts and Amherst would have to await a more clement...
Calkins' equivocation on the issue--and it appears that he has changed his mind--is indicative of the Corporation's attitudes that what students believe does not matter. Combined with the statements of Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, Calkins' action reinforced a patter of refusa! to even consider the issues...
...groups share numerous features; and, in fact, the celebrated G. & S. "patter songs" have their origin in the non-stop pnigos passages in Aristophanes' plays...
...others that used to be done by the late Martyn Green, have been for a quarter century the province of John Reed, who remains a lively and comical performer, despite the excessive doffing and donning of pince-nez. The nightmare number is the greatest of all the G. &. S. patter songs; and Reed, in the encore, increases the headlong tempo beyond what one would think the limit of possibility. At the end of the evening, however, I see no excuse for Reed's electing to change the single word that resolves the plot from Gilbert's doesn...
...sidelong irony ("Betrayed by a kiss/ On a cool night of bliss/ In the valley of the missing link"); even a certain smarmy desperation ("I'm lost in the haze of your delicate ways"). In live appearances, Dylan has lately converted himself into a sardonic showman, tossing around patter between numbers, glad-handing the audience, carrying on as if he wants to bellyflop straight into the mainstream. Street-Legal has strong pop overtones, and at least two cuts (Baby Stop Crying and We Better Talk This Over) sound shaped for the Top Ten. Dylan's heat still burns...