Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which was formed last June during the tenth reunion of the Class of 1960, last fall nominated Terry F. Lenzner '61 as an Overseer. In order to have his name placed on the ballot, which is mailed out to all Harvard alumni, the CCA had to produce petitions signed by alumni...
Follies is almost sans plot. Just before his old Broadway theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz...
...Broadway theaters. Designer Boris Aaronson has made of it a poignantly dilapidated shell where the spectral applause of a thousand opening nights hangs palpably in the air. The showplace is in the demolition phase, as are the people who enter it: chorus girls back for "a first and last reunion...
...Committee of Concerned Alumni grew out of the Class of 1960's tenth reunion last June. The 25-member group's first project was to protest the Corporation's decision last spring to vote with the General Motors management against public interest reforms sponsored by consumer advocate Ralph Nader...
...marriage and an escape to illusion. But he senses that the problem is too complex to be resolved. So he skips entirely the scene toward which the whole film has been pointing-the parting of the friends in London-and instead, he concludes with the cheap sentimentality of Gus' reunion with his children. The film then ends with an ambiguity-not the provoking open-endedness of good questions raised, but the nagging sense of an itch left unscratched...