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This Porgy and Bess is musically full-bodied; dramatically, it stresses something primitive and makes earlier productions seem in retrospect a little genteel. Its chief shortcoming: without quite achieving the musical statue of opera-the music sometimes pants and strains-it becomes a bit too sprawling and noisy for musi-comedy. But such excesses are a kind of tribute to its exuberance...
Hoffman suggested that in retrospect some of the decade's values appear stereotyped. He presented as examples the "Fohemian" search for liberation and the Marxist view of life as a surrender of self-fulfillment to the demands of capitalism...
...Europe; afterward she turned to whisky, husbands and psychiatrists. As a holdup artist she was just an inspired, though eminently successful, amateur-she said she never planned her jobs, pulled them only on impulse and gave the money away. But she seemed to be enjoying her career in retrospect...
...know why we couldn't have played that way all season," he said in retrospect. "It started right off badly in the first loss to Williams, and of course we played a tough schedule. But that wasn't the real reason. We lost games we had no business losing--Princeton, for instance. We never seemed to have the incentive. Of course, the fact that the same 11 men were never working as a unit is demoralizing to any outfit," he explained...
Chills, drama, lasting achievement--this sport has them all, for the individual concerned. It's too bad the rest of us can only admire in retrospect...