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Leverett House--The Leverett House Arts Society was created last spring. Its inaugural production. The Roar of the Greasepaint--The Smell of the Crowd, has just closed after playing to consistently sold out houses. Leverett House is the only one at Harvard which has its own stage: it was constructed in the Old Library as a project of the Leverett House Spring Arts Festival...
...Roar of the Greasepaint. The Smell of the Crowd. the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricisse extravaganza, has more scatological double-entendres than you could shake your...fist at. Vomiting gets a big laugh, as does a jock in drag. There is much belching, and some to-do over a lower-class character's use of obscenity (which, alas, is far from sufficiently feisty...
...Roar's action is simple; so is its mind. A Big Man named Sir plays a Game of Life with Cocky, the Little Guy. Sir owns all the Pieces, and makes the Rules as he goes along. Cocky persevers, "thinking" that he'll win someday, until he meets...the Negro. The Negro sets him straight by showing him that every man can win if he plays his own way. (Actually, whether it means that, or whether the Game is no damn good, is never made clear). Cocky first makes demands, then deserts the Game for good. He only comes back...
...other players can. he gained 146 yards on 32 carries against Harvard, but this value to the Big Red attack cannot be summed up in his personal yardage statistics. Every time quarterback Mark Allen would even look at Marinaro, the crowd would let out a deafening roar. The Crimson defense reacted in a similar awe-filled manner, putting eight men on the defensive line...
...Most of Britain's allies, though officially silent, were delighted by London's daring move. Some, however, privately expressed nervousness about the Soviet reaction. For most Britons, the case of the drunken defector gave rise to an exhilarating feeling that the lion had not lost all of its roar. The Foreign Office, its reputation tarnished for two decades by the Burgess-MacLean-Philby case, seemed enveloped in euphoria. The Manchester Guardian weakly applauded...