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...have seldom felt as much joy in my theatergoing life as I did sitting in the Jane Street Theater watching the original cast of this production. What could have been a heavy-handed and manipulative retelling of Jonathan Larson’s life with his own work, emerged as an enthralling celebration of life. It is a heart-felt musical that produced a fabulous cast recording and is worth repeated listenings...
...dictators. Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan. Adolf Hitler had been buried, dead or alive, in the rubble of his collapsing Third Reich...If he were indeed dead, the hope of most of mankind had been realized. For seldom had so many millions of people hoped so implacably for the death...
...hoped that he would live on yet a little while. For no death they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat...Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. The suffering and desolation that he wrought were beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The bodies of his victims were heaped across Europe from Stalingrad to London...
...with satisfaction as I divulged my concentration (“Physics?! What do you do with that?”). I’d be damned if any palm-greasing, name-dropping, yarn-grubber would squeeze even the time of day out of me, and as a result I seldom initiated any conversations with fellow students...
Missing Persons is a branch of the Memphis Police Department’s (MPD) general assignment bureau. “[They] seldom get out of the office. [They] make telephone calls and put information in the computer,” the MPD officer said...