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...point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...
...this those who object to the plan recognized merely by saying that the executive committee would become the pawn of the Faculty directors. The price seemed slight, however, when weighed against the promise of an HDC renaissance. There were to be benefit performances to replenish the treasury; under existing arrangements the HDC made no money on Loeb shows. There were to be special benefits for HDC members: free tickets, lectures, a newsletter. The next week the constitution was ratified 39-1. An elected president was to represent the membership. At executive committee meetings, though, he would have no vote...
...lapse into disillusionment and bored nihilism, West Germany must find a larger national role than serving as a pawn between East and West. Such a role might have been-and one day still may be-helping to build a united Europe. But for the present, Charles de Gaulle has virtually wrecked that vision. De Gaulle has thus both frustrated German ambitions for an acceptable, even idealistic, role in the world, and provided an old-fashioned example of nationalism that is highly contagious...
...most of the lines are adequate transitions between the songs and dances. And besides, the two shysters, Hammond Deggs (Dean Stolber) and Hammond Swiss (James McBaine), can pawn anything off-even on the audience. Along with the mammoth Dean Unciate (Harry Q. Lapham), these two infuse the show with a relaxed lightness and gaiety which infiltrates almost the whole cast. Their duets are simply fine pieces of stage business...
...expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...