Word: tableau
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Howling Massacre. The last scene began with a tableau of Napoleon's Grande Armée struggling in the snow. Then came a band of howling partisan-patriots to massacre the exhausted invaders...
...each stanza is declaimed, the entire cast freezes into a tintype tableau. Then everybody but Casey (Louis Venora), who is impressive but mute, bursts into songs of Schuman and Gury devising. Among them: a what-does-the-catcher-say-to-the-pitcher number, a kill-the-umpire rhubarb and, after the immortal third strike, a heartfelt requiem. But the piece ends on a happy note: Casey is still a hero to his girl. Musically, the opera was ingenious if not immortal-though at an hour and 20 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long. Nonetheless, the Hartford audience seemed...
Some collectors pay special prices for African tribal warriors, ancient Greeks or Roman legionaries. One specialist can proudly assemble a dramatic tableau of the rape of the Sabine women. But mostly the Paris trade is in old soldiers of Louis XIII, XIV, XV and the First Empire...
...have, then, a tableau which includes one rule misapplied, one rule broken with official sanction, and a quarrel between Governing Board and Dean's Office on definitions. Added to this are the Saturday afternoon sportscasts of the football games, sponsored by the Atlantic Oil Company. At best, this is a tableau riddled with inconsistencies. At worst, it is a perversion of the University's dubious Good Name Policy, a perversion which exalts the popular Band and football team over lesser known groups solely on the basis of which will glorify Harvard's name the most...
Whatever this tableau's specific origins, the basic trouble is the Corporation's rule forbidding groups that grace their name with Harvard to perform on commercially sponsored shows. Why the administration maintains this rule is still none too clear, except that it obviously involves fear for Harvard's reputation. Perhaps the Corporation is afraid that people will suspect it of selling the use of Harvard to purveyors of soap and toothpaste. Why anyone, however, should confuse a student group's appearance on radio with official endorsement of its sponsor any more than he confuses football sportscasts with official endorsement...