Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these days. As usual, though, Harvard seems to be outdoing the rest-or trying awfully hard. The nation's oldest university has gone hip, and no one is yet sure where the limits may lie. Junior Bob Telson from Brooklyn barely exaggerates when he says: "Today the only thing you could possibly be booted for is something you'd get two years for in the outside world...
Aromatic Inhalation. There is no such thing as a distinctive Merrill style. His recent production of Der Rosenkavalier was presented realistically, with sets, costumes and actions designed so that the audience could "feel a good aromatic inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten...
...your personality," he says in the familiar, syncopated rhythm that is the same off the air as on. "Oh, yes, I can relax. But I can't relax doing nothing." His estranged wife, former United Press Reporter Ann Fischer, maintains that David's work is "the one thing in the world he's really comfortable with...
...more good jokes than any man alive. David could read the dictionary, and it would be light and frothy." The two men, while not close personally, have always meshed perfectly professionally. "We just sort of took each other as we were, and we still do," Brinkley says. "For one thing, neither of us has any interest in hogging...
...Directions. Director Vilgot Sjöman told his leading lady even before filming began that "it will all be very improvised and we'll use all the film we need. The whole thing will be rather crazy and we'll get all of Sweden into the film." That's precisely the trouble. Sjöman is like Stephen Leacock's young nobleman, riding madly off in all directions. He tries to reproduce the substance of Swedish politics, render a portrait of contemporary youth, satyrize the mechanics of film making, and dramatize his own hang...