Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group; a star or two will not suffice. Here Chekhov has done away with the clear spine that drives through the play from one exciting event to another, from one "sock on the jaw" (Chekhov's phrase) to another; he has turned his back on the technique of say, Ibsen and Strindberg. He has, in effect, turned from the solo concerto with orchestra to the more subtle and contrapuntal interplay of chamber music...
...Three Sisters there is a spine, but it is submerged well below the surface--like almost everything else in the play. The work requires a lot from its audience, which may easily choose to be just as board as some of Chekhov's characters claim to be. People say there is no plot. In a way they are right. Instead, there is a congeries of tiny plotlets, ever so delicately and carefully contrived...
That is about 90 per cent of what one can say about the economic consequences of rent control. All of it was said, to be sure, repeatedly in the council chambers, but the discussion of the policy occupied but a small portion of the debate. Most of it focused on a simple, symbolic theme. Tenants--usually pictured as long-time residents of Cambridge--were being thrown out of their homes by rapacious landlords grasping for the higher rents students and other transients could pay. Eviction lists, tales of widows and amputees, and even skits were used to hammer...
USUALLY REGARDED as the chief foe of the universities, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci makes frequent speeches urging that Harvard and M.I.T. be, in effect, thrown out of Cambridge to some other place, say Waltham. Vellucci doesn't have the slightest chance of doing this, of course, and might not even want to, but his advocacy of such action strikes responsive chords in his East Cambridge supporters. Even in normal times, which these are not, politics in the City are apt to be heavily charged with rhetoric; the passions inherent in the rent control issue were amplified by this political style...
...concert itself, the fairest thing to say would be that, on the whole, it was enjoyable, particularly if one hasn't a very good sense of pitch. The Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 kin F Major, opus 80, opened the program and nearly closed it. Alexander Schneider, Leslie Parnas, and Murray Perahia showed no life, no energy, and no enthusiasm. Each movement was stodgy, and movements two and three positively died at the end. The cellist performed rather well. Unfortunately the violinist was sadly out of tune. The biggest single complaint I would register against the performance was lack...