Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northern Lights-Southern Cross, last year, the group has combined the primal energy of roadhouse rock 'n' roll with a down-home vision of America, particularly the South. Robbie Robertson's haunting folk ballad The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down recalls a traditional Civil War song: "Virgil Cane is the name/ And I served on the Danville train/ Til Stoneman's cavalry came/ And tore up the tracks again./ In the winter of '65, we were hungry and barely alive...
...about the last party they threw in what was then the all-male Union Dorm. It was one of their patented beer blasts, with all the usual ingredients--a couple of kegs, a T.V. set in the hallway, and 80 or so half-drunken freshmen blearily watching "Brian's Song." The only women who dared disturb the stately, all-male silence quickly left after an irate hockey player indignantly commanded them to "Shut the hell up, can't you see we're trying to listen?" The party's high point came a few hours later, when members of the group...
...know it isn't," says Christina L. Brown '80. The students got together the first weekend they arrived, passed a hat, and staged the first of a long string of parties that have enticed students from the Yard to make the great trek across Prescott Street. "Brian's Song" is no longer the main attraction, and there has even been a move by screwdriver-lovers to supplant beer as the official beverage. The scheme seems to have worked. Pennypacker is now such a popular place that it has adopted students from other freshman dorms who prefer to spend most...
...then there's the self-consciously artistic way Horovitz sandwiches the action between the refrain of a popular song wafting in from the wings. The sappy, off-key message is that Murph and Joey, poor lost crime-ridden souls, are "lookin' for your door and can't find it." Horovitz's technique is too glib, too conventional...
...sold as a courtesan, plays the part well as a Roman Holden Caulfield, rolling and tumbling all over himself in first love. Yet there's another side to him too, cajoling Pseudolus into risking his relatively safe position--for freedom to be sure--but also for Hero. The song "Free" is a real high-point, spotlighting the two best male singers n the cast. Pseudolus has convinced himself that freedom is not worth the risk, and Hero whispers "free" seductively into his ear. Zax's face lights up; maybe it didn't take all that much persuading, but after...