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...participants began arriving Sunday afternoon. John Shoemaker '35, was pleased to return to Lowell House, where he lived while attending Harvard. He said he came because he missed his reunion and wanted to experience the University life again. Shoemaker's daughter, Andley, a student at Randolph-Macon College, accompanied her father to the sessions to "enjoy the Harvard atmosphere and the activities of the University." Elenore Johnson '44, came for the "fun and intellectual stimilation" of the session...
...fifth fund-raising extravaganza. At prices of $5 to $100, some 20,000 people flocked to New York's Madison Square Garden, to be ushered to their seats by such notables as Paul Newman, Shirley MacLaine and Julie Christie. But Beatty's piece de resistance was the reunion of three split-up groups of stars: Peter, Paul and Mary, sounding as unified as ever; Mike Nichols and Elaine May, delivering their own deadpan political satire; and Simon and Garfunkel, re-creating Bridge over Troubled Water, which may be destined to become Senator McGovern's campaign song...
...time graduating seniors return for their fifth reunion, at least two highrise buildings will tower over the Square. Over a million tourists a year will be visiting the Kennedy Library on the 11-acre MBTA site across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Streets will have been rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will have fled before an onslaught of hotels, tourist shops, and hamburger stands. Parking facilities will be swamped, and construction of an MBTA Redline extension, out to the Fresh Pond shopping center, will be underway...
...barring acts of God or a radical sweep of city elections, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known--soon...
Most of these questions are raised with subtlety and without polemics in That Championship Season, a drama of searing intensity, agonized compassion and consummate craftsmanship. The play centers on the 20th reunion of a handful of men whose lives were once fresh as mountain springs and now resemble the sooty detritus of a city gutter. A silver trophy stands as a cenotaph for their one moment of glory, when they won a high school basketball title...