Word: treat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVER! is a treat-and a sumptuous one -for everyone in the family. Dickens' reformist zeal has been eliminated, but a good score, handsome sets, wizardly direction (by Carol Reed) and sprightly performances are ample compensation...
This syndrome only recently achieved the distinction of a medical name - deprivation dwarfism. To treat its victims doctors simply take them away from their homes - and it appears that even the institutional tenderness of a hospital can snap emotionally starved youngsters into a spurt of growth...
...great deal of material by and about Afro-American people is presented in courses offered by members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Most of these courses treat the Afro-American experience in the context of more general aspects of American life: social, political and intellectual history, urban problems, race and ethnic group relations, to name just a few. Only one course, Social Sciences 5, and a few group tutorials for credit in Social Relations and Government, focus exclusively on the history and culture of Afro-Americans...
...Treat by Contrast. This story line could have been as sticky as a candied apple, except that the co-creators of The Fantasticks, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, have used a favorite device of Bertolt Brecht's. Brecht traded on the sentimentality of a song or story while ironically kidding it. Thus an audience could feel emotionally stirred and intellectually superior at one and the same time. What Jones and Schmidt have done is to write a fairy tale that knowingly winks at itself...
Simplicity, spareness and clarity are the order of the evening, and that alone makes the show a treat by contrast to most other Broadway musicals. There is no piston-pumping chorus testing the floorboards in Celebration, only a small gentle band of masked dancers decked in the costumes and spirit of a carnival. The straight melodic line and unpretentiously apt lyrics of the songs appeal to the ear without assaulting it. Celebration is intimate and beguiling and it has a distinctive personality rather than a powerhouse complex. It is one of those good things that come in small packages...