Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outlined on the floor in masking tape is the shape of the Agassiz stage, a tiny area that will somehow have to accommodate 26 costumed actors. Two columns of support beams march in formation down the length of the room, through the stage, and iron grating covers the windows. Originally Shannon was the ROTC building. Now the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players use it as a place in which to hold rehearsals and build sets for their productions...
...prevented them from buying a larger home, a move they have wanted to make for their two children. So late last fall. David, who teaches math in a public high school, applied for jobs in western Massachusetts. Their plans fell through, however, and with the economy in its present shape he cannot afford to give up his present job and hunt...
...PERFORMANCE as a whole had moments of great power and beauty, largely due to the enthusiast and disciplined singing of the chorus, but there was little overall sense of direction or shape. Individual sections failed to build properly because the musician always gave everything they had at the first opportunity instead of holding back to create a real dramatic climax Adams's inability to create carefully sculpted large sections prevented the performance from maintaining high emotional intensity. Without a single driving interpretation, the music lived--and died--from moment to moment...
There are also numerous senior leagues for diehard oldtimers. New York cops stay in shape by playing on a team sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson, a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team, gets in his weekly licks in St. Paul. Out in Santa Rosa, Calif., Snoopy's creator, Charles Schulz, 52, built his own rink and trades hip checks at least three times a week with other ancients. "I find hockey to be a necessity," says Schulz. "I go out on the ice for an hour and forget everything...
Inevitably, the book is more concerned with The New Yorker then than now. Gill's memories are mostly ebullient. They include, of course, Ross, that "aggressively ignorant" Midwesterner who bullied The New Yorker into shape. Thurber's portrait remains definitive, but Gill adds amusing embellishments. Once Gill included the Tennysonian phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" in a "Talk of the Town" item. Ross's notorious innocence in literary matters ("Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?") prompted him to change the reference to "nature, red in claw and tooth." Gill explains as best...