Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actor and musical instrument reflects his assimilation and digestion of Beckett's rhetoric: Kim spent two years composing Narratives, finishing in 1975 just in time for the master's 75th birthday. Kim established a precedent for this performance in Exercises en Route, his first successful attempt to set the spoken word to music. In this new form which he calls "Music/Theatre," Kim draws upon the improvizational abilities of the Ariel Music Ensemble...
Sage and seer though he was, Shakespeare could not have guessed at the prophetic accuracy of his own lines or have foreseen that in 1979 they would be spoken in the accents of Manhattan's black and Spanish Harlem. As always, genius defies augury...
...years ago Henry Rosovsky introduced himself to the Class of '79 in Sanders Theater with the reassuring thought that "the process of change at Harvard moves with glacial speed." We accepted that, partly because it was 9 in the morning and still Freshman Week, and partly because it was spoken with such a calm assurance--the easy arrogance of the truth...
...spoken a lot about Stalin. How much do the young people know about...
...whoever does come, if the recent record is any guide, seniors shouldn't worry about hearing some dull sermon laid down just as they prepare to enter "the company of educated men and women." The seniors have spoken, and they will most likely get the laughs they asked...