Word: thurberism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest was easy. In no other match did M.I.T. win a set, and number-one man Bernie Adelsberg was the only Crimson player besides Devereaux to be extended. Adelsberg, last year's New England Intercollegiate Champion, was erratic as he overpowered M.I.T.'s Rich Thurber 7-5, 6-3. He then teamed with captain Brian Davis to win the second doubles, 8-6, 6-3 over M.I.T.'s Cart Weissgerber and Steve Deneroff, Davis had routed Weissgerber earlier in the number two singles...
Levin (number three) chagrined Dener-off, 6-0, 6-0. Jarvis (four) polished off M.I.T.'s John St. Peter, 6-2, 6-3. At number one doubles, they blistered the Engineer combination of Thurber and Bob Metcalfe...
...Thurber assembled the piece several years before his death. In a humble, un-self conscious and altogether pleasant way, it is an experiment in total media. Dramatic readings, with more acting and less reading, depending on the piece, are accompanied by a quiet jazz piano; his cartoons and illustrations are projected above the set, sometimes as asides to the stage work and sometimes as the center of attention...
...everything works at once: not everything Thurber did, not everything director Robert V. Edgar does. "The Night the Bed Fell," for example, is a wonderful short story, a classic, but too much a narration to succeed on stage. "Gentlemen Shoppers," a happy drunken burlesque of modern fashion salons, should play well, but some sloppy acting by John R. Munger, Christopher Hart and Tom Popovich make it a bit tedious...
...coincidence of talent (which happens now about half the time and will no doubt happen more often when a large audience incites the cast to comedy) Carnival is riotous, though riotous gives you no sense of the tender and gentle emotions which overcome an audience shaking with laughter at Thurber's humor...