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...supporting roles are strong. Chris Baker plays the chorus leader with rhetorical flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas carols with polish. The Initiates, led by Jane Jackson, perform with fervent abandon, and in the second act create a hissing, cheering audience for the great debate...
...their new academic titles are: Leon Paul Weiss, assistant professor of Anatomy; Jin Harold Kinoshita, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry at the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology; William Samson Beck, assistant professor of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital; Daniel Abramson '24, assistant clinical professor of Obstetrics; John William Raker, assistant clinical professor of Surgery, and John Paul Spiegel, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry...
...facts. One month age, a "workman" started cutting the grass in the Eliot House courtyard at 8:15 a.m. setting up such a cacophony with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with an electric leaf raker, with the same result. Seven days after that he was copping ice, not steadily and rhythmically so that one could get used to it, bur irregularly. Success in this third plot was so overwhelming that he came back the following week and REPEATED THE PERFORMANCE...
...Elyot and her daughter Eden. Elyot, as the blurb says, "represents death," Eden "struggles up to life," the mother "wavers between the two." They are presented, in their mutual oppositions, with considerable psychological skill. It all converges, in the long run, on sex for each. Elyot, a scholar, a "raker of dust, a rattler of bones," winds up in bed with an art-gallery Jewess as hard & cold as chromium. Eden, a sultry semi-Marxist, follows an abortion with a hot, sterile series of affairs, finds what she needs in a calm carpenter who dies for Loyalist Spain...
...Raker Act amended, a proposal of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. This Ickes and many a conservationist would oppose...