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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onto the stage he exclaims, "You have nothing to lose but your brains--I mean chains." His threat is mitigated when it is revealed that he is really the father of Grendel, i.e. Grendel's mother's ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type") husband. Charisma and Beowulf then sing of the joyous life they will have together as the defeated Mathiez writhes in the corner: "We'll just be petty bourgeoisl...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Areopagitica | 3/27/1962 | See Source »

...SING ALONG WITH JONATHAN AND DARLENE EDWARDS (RCA Victor). Another offering by the husband-and-wife team that a few years back jolted music lovers with their riotously off-key assaults on perfectly innocent tunes. By now, even their detractors must know that the credit belongs to Orchestra Leader Paul Weston on piano and his wife, Singer Jo Stafford. Their fans will find them as cunningly awful as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recent Records: Popular | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Pleading for his life, Giovannini finally promised to sing Salan's praise in print. The "commandant" stayed his execution and returned him to the Aletti with a message for all twelve Italian newsmen in Algiers: leave, or die. Eleven left by the next available plane. The twelfth, Nicola Caracciolo, 30, of Milan's Il Giorno, defiantly holed up in the Italian consulate for three days ("It is my moral and professional duty to stay at my post"). Then he, too, prudently fled to Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rising Wave | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...harshness which was supposedly villainous but instead was merely ugly. Neither he nor the Spirit, Michael McDonald, knew how to pronounce properly either for diction or sonority: McDonald was so ineffective that Aeneas seemed the more powerful when the Spirit told him to depart. And the witches could not sing. The chorus blended well and enlivened the evening with their vigor. But they were plagued with faulty pitch, particularly in the woman, and fell apart when reduced to individual voices...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Dido and Aeneas | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Less than a week after the riot, President Pusey announced that Pete Seeger would not be permitted to sing at Harvard, a decision that violated every principle of academic freedom Harvard stands for. Once again Mr. Pusey found himself in the embarrassing position of having to back down after a decision had already been reached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR DECISIONS | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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