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...social commentary is not the draw of Gilbert and Sullivan—light farce and playful ditties are. At least in the latter, the work succeeds??the music is reminiscent of a fifties melodrama and suits the story well. However, the lyrics fall flat in places, and they were sometimes difficult to hear with the orchestral accompaniment (or perhaps simply poor acoustics in the Agassiz Theatre). Nonetheless, the singing itself evidenced the actors’ skills...
...social commentary is not the draw of Gilbert and Sullivan—light farce and playful ditties are. At least in the latter, the work succeeds??the music is reminiscent of a fifties melodrama and suits the story well. However, the lyrics fall flat in places, and they were sometimes difficult to hear with the orchestral accompaniment (or perhaps simply poor acoustics in the Agassiz Theatre). Nonetheless, the singing itself evidenced the actors’ skills...
...advancing a serious policy option. The week after the story broke, the Economist came to Summers’ defense, editorializing in eerily familiar terms that if Summers “was merely trying to provoke debate,” “it is to be hoped that he succeeds??and that the Bank does not, instead, go silent on the subject...
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