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...dining hall: "What's your thesis about?" "Well, it's sort of about--well, about appearance and reality." "Funny--mine's sort of about that, too." The old A-and-R theme--and you thought it was original. In difficult times like these, it can be a pleasant relief to get away to Boston and see a play that is explicitly and admittedly about appearance and reality...
...area which can perhaps be preserved by careful planning and judgment. Those whose concern is security alone may understandably be impatient with these considerations. My own concern is for the greatest security we can afford that is least disruptive of the life and habits that have made the Houses pleasant, interesting and varied centers of undergraduate life. This can be achieved, I believe, only by some thoughtful choice among the various kinds of protection...
...problems of Of Mice and Men are different, and the Loeb's audience as one might expect, was considerably more polite. Floyd's score is competent and pleasant, and has several moments of real drama, notably an exultant second-act trio for the ranchhands who think they've found a home of their own at last. Steinbeck's play is effective enough to carry some of the rest, particularly since NERO's exemplary singers enunciate every word clearly...
There's little point in trying to follow the plot, which deals with the rape of Mexico by imperial Spain, because nothing ever happens in opera seria anyway. Graun's music is very pleasant, and ultimately quite moving...
Bierman said last night that she suggested the benefit because she thought "it would be a pleasant way to raise money for what I think is a very necessary cause...