Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are extremely popular with both listeners and the members. As Webb puts it, "Orgies are a chance for CM's like me to let their hair down." He is responsible for the orgy of War Horses--classical music other stations might play, but which WHRB would never touch on a regular show--Beethoven's Fifth, perhaps the Ninth, Dvorak's New World Symphony, and "almost all of Tchaikovsky." Other members offer orgies of "Mothers Day request music," Bossa Nova, Muddy Waters, Mozart, or "Music in E flat...
...things rescue Touch from the usual family conflict study. One is its humor; the other, some exceptionally good characterizations which are performed extremely well. The humor is apparent even from the opening of the play when the downstairs toilet is reported out of commission. When Ruth complains about her bladder, fixit husband Jack suggests a milk bottle and retorts, "Learn to aim. I have." But after a great deal of water sloshing in buckets the crisis is resolved. Characterizations are often achieved through a single line. When Ruth speaks of herself as cultered she says, "Red wine with meat...
Kidder, a sophomore who performed well in spring practice in Charleston, S.C., has lost in every match this year. He hasn't regained the putting touch he had in Charleston, where he qualified fourth...
Joel Schwartz's last play, Mine Eyes See Not So Far, was a long tortuous examination of single character heightened by a fantasy play-within-a-play. His latest offering, Touch, takes on a whole family with much of the same dramatist's skill, more humor, but unfortunately less discipline. Despite Eyes' inordinate length, the various parts were pulled together in a complex web; in Touch there are scenes which are merely extraneous and sometimes distracting from the main action of the play. This state of affairs is doubly frustrating since parts of Touch are not merely good, but excellent...
...Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...