Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Havergal created a strong first impression by casting Figaro in front of the 30 people called back. "The auditions were spread out over three evenings, and it was all a workshop type of thing with acting exercises and no scripts. On the last night I called back the people I wanted to see again, and then told them who I wanted to use and who I didn't want...
...inspects the set, a marvelous concoction by Joan Ferenchak, draped with a Brechtian-type banner reading "Figaro," and helps to roll out a rug. "These are two remarkable plays," Havergal says of Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, "and the playwright was a wild, extraordinary man, a pamphleteer and a music teacher. But very soon after he wrote them, one was taken over by Rossini and the other by Mozart, and the operas effectively put a smokescreen over the originals. Cutting and combining the two plays gives the whole show a fascinating irony. The first play...
...setting logs around the field to keep cars off the grass. Garner says this is "technically a temporary change which just keeps the cars off the field." He adds that the Planning Office has not yet drawn up a permanent plan, which might involve sinking curbstones or a similar type of barrier to keep cars off the grass...
...success pattern" at Harvard. To him, black students should strive for formal integration within the University context. He should be pleased, as we are, that black Harvard graduates have historically made significant contributions to society. He should also be pleased that recent black graduates appear to be achieving the type of success he values, while still having to deal with society's racism...
...merely repeat pledges and exhortations that the President made earlier. Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, commented bitingly: "If it had been the first time I heard the speech, I would judge it exceptionally good-right in tone, right in balance, voicing the type of general philosophy that I support. The problem is that I have heard it all before...