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...Pianos Mecaniques by Henri-Francois Rey. A French bestseller highly praised by the critics, Pianos is a sort of Dolce Vita set on Spain's Costa Brava whose main characters-a schizophrenic journalist, a neglected teen-age boy and girl, a half-wit charwoman-move through their pointless lives battling boredom with promiscuity. Sample passage: "She led him to the bed, still keeping their lips locked. Vincent lay down. Jenny detached herself. She began to undress him, with sure clean motions...
Really the opera concerns itself only with the monk's search for his daughter. Pelagia's conversion seems off-stage and is dwarfed by the reunion with her father in the final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...
...pointless to discuss the Department of Linguistics separate from Joshua Whatmough--the two have been together so long that one cannot imagine them apart. By 1941, Whatmough had coordinated linguistic studies so well that the creation of the department was feasible. At that time he, himself, did all the necessary typing and paperwork; his total subsidy was fifteen dollars for postage. Today the Department of Linguistics has its own offices and secretaries and a small but growing number of undergraduate concentrators...
...structor will be able to find out what kind of discussion is best for each particular class. It would be unwise in most cases to use class meetings for answering questions by students (which tend to be uninformed and superficial) or for discussions initiated by students (which are generally pointless.) However--to give just a few examples--meetings might well be used for any of the following purposes: 1) making sure students understand important points in the lecture, 2) holding discussions on topics which the instructor thinks important, or 3) amplifying points in the reading which prove to be difficult...
...with most musicals, the story is a little silly and it would be pointless to recount its intricacies here. The basic problem is the late arrival of Charley's aunt (Johanna Madden) for a senior week-end at Oxford. She is supposed to chaperon Charley (Chuck Breyer), his roommate (Dean Stolber) and their dates. When she doesn't arrive, Charley masquerades as his aunt, leaving everyone to wonder where's Charley...