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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today regarded as an American musical classic, Lerner and Lowe's Camelot met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception from critics when it originally opened. They dismissed the Lerner show as being inferior to My Fair Lady, its immediate predecessor by the same composer-lyricist team. The comparison irritated Lerner, who pointed out that he and Lowe had had hits before My Fair Lady, such as Brigadoon...
...comparison probably also would not sit well with Will Sakas, director of the Freshman Arts Council's production of Camelot. Sakas, who proposed the show to the Council, loves the musical for its dramatic content: the tragic love story and struggle to create a civilization in the midst of the Dark Ages, Camelot is, in his opinion, "a very beautiful, very personal tragedy...
...starts early in the morning in Hopkinton when runners of every shape, size, sex and mentality show up for the pre-race rituals--stretching, taping, slathering on the atomic balm, and (hopefully) unloading part of the carbohydrate feast of the night before. Warning for you prospective runners; the lines start forming for the john...
Linda Hansen, a teaching fellow in history, said yesterday she held her class in the office of the B.U. Exposure newspaper to show support for the clerical workers and librarians...
...outraged by the latest show of student activism on campus--Monday's proposed boycott of classes in support of both South African divesture and the Afro-American Studies Department. Taking a moral stance on racial apartheid in South Africa, certainly one concern of international importance, is one thing, but placing it on the same level as the Afro-Am debate leaves the boycott devoid of any meaning and, rather, turns it into a farcical imitation of the 1969 strike...