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...second semester advances and midterms approach, approximately 6400 of us drag ourselves to classes with looks of chagrin, determination, or genuine interest--depending on the time of day. Winter reading period fades away, vacation never existed. The piquant awareness of our hometown mailman and the next door neighbor's child subsides as we decide which course to take for a fifth course and which to take pass/fail...

Author: By Sherry L. Lubbers, | Title: Cambridge Faces, Cambridge Lives | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

...provincialism: it has medieval and folk echoes, strikes a resolutely winsome and pastoral note, and is steeped in native literature (with settings of verses by poets from Herrick and Blake to Auden). Britten composed it when he was 35, and he took such an obvious delight in the piquant vocal and instrumental textures that they seem to have bloomed freshly under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Loudun provided the material for this raw adaptation. Since British Playwright John Whiting's early death in 1963, the play has acquired something of a cult following. Cult plays rarely improve on revival, and The Devils is no exception, but they do often contain scenes or ideas of piquant interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shakespeare, Chekhov & Co. | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Opening next week at the Loeb, along with a host of other shows, is the Mainstage production of Marat/Sade, directed by Kerry Konrad '78. Tonight, the Loeb Ex will showcase Forbidden Fruits, an original play by Paul Frohock. Our roving photographer caught piquant moments in both rehearsals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Rehearsal... | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

Catch the re-runs of the age of Aquarius, more commonly known as Hair, presented by the Dunster Drama Society. The love-rock tribal musical promises energetic performances, rousing musical numbers, and even some piquant social and political commentary. Yes, Virginia, there once was an anti-war movement led by politically committed students. At Dunster House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGE | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

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