Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer solstice is traditionally thought to be the night when dream spirits are most active. A wood serves as a metaphor for a dream and it is also the best place to set one. A Midsummer Night's Dream is at once a producer of magical events and a product of the wood outside Athens where it occurs. Shakespeare wrote about mortals and spirits tangled in a complicated web of deception and enchantment. In Benjamin Britten's operatic version of the play the twinings of reality and illusion combine to confuse all the wanderers in the wood. The fairies bewitch...
...offensive [in the same way I think spoofs in the National Lampoon, and films like Network go too far]. And it was precisely because I assumed that the need to debunk sexist attitudes, although unfortunately not "universally understood," is at least recognized by many filmgoers in Cambridge, that I thought I should poke some fun of my own at these shorts' sometimes unsympathetic and crude way of bringing that message across...
...Orpheum the Orf did you figure that one our Garland Jeffries at the Berklee Performance Center on April 17 and you can't take grandma grandma nonono I won't list any sales at department or leather stores this week because this thing is taking longer than I thought it would and after all this is only a college paper an extracurricular activity or is it just a bad dream I'll opt for two of the latter on cissel or is it sissel bubby I can't really believe it but the Ramones are back...
...scandal of London in the 1920's was the young poet Edith Sitwell. She paraded around town dressed in exotic costumes and wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote "positively outrageous poetry" and she went around discovering poets, like Dylan Thomas, who were thought to be even more scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80, Facade, "An Entertainment," the sparkling musical parody which William Walton wrote for Sitwell's poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry, puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb...
...arrive at a major "intellectual synthesis"--"With an impact rivalling that of the Darwinian theory of biological evolution, it may be able to account for all the structures in the universe, from quasars to planets." Gursky, in the office above Field, is not so confident. He says, "If we thought we'd find an answer, we'd give up. We'd just publish it and go home...