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...Jackson candidacy collapsed as Carter took everything. The day after Pennsylvania, Humphrey's ordeal was plain. He would have to get in-or out. In Washington, he met with his closest advisers: Senator Walter Mondale and his top assistant, Richard Moe; Tom Kelm, assistant to Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson; Max Kampelman, a Washington attorney; Bob Short; and others...
...unusual undertaking for the Loeb mainstage. Panizza's ideas have been undeservedly shunned by directors, but the script has technical faults which director Richard Pena failed to recognize. Sometimes the metaphor of syphilis becomes obsessive, which makes the devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
Little such instruction exists for those interested in jazz--musicians, historians, critics, or just plain enthusiasts. Harvard's Music department fails to offer a single course in jazz theory, improvisation, or composition. Those interested are urged to cross register at other schools in Boston for such instruction. Similarly, the department offers no classes in history or criticism of jazz music...
...Katherine of France, speaking partly in fractured French while she answers in broken English. In amused frustration Henry says: "I" faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding. I am glad thou canst speak no better English, for, if thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my crown...
This play briefly opens a window on one woman's life and then permanently locks the door. The heiress, Catherine Sloper (Jane Alexander), is an awkward, self-denigrating, plain-featured girl who falls ardently in love with a handsome fortune hunter named Morris Townsend (David Selby). He knows how to simulate passion since money is his love...