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Directors Harry Dorfman and Patty Woo are unfailingly faithful to Tom Jones's 1959 script, and that is the production's greatest weakness. The unabashed sappiness of the romance between Matt (Rick Farrar) and Luisa (Cathy Weary) demands an audience steeped in bad musicals to be funny. Out of historical...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Kirkland to Enterprise | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

The program opened with J.S. Bach's Overture No. 3 in D major, a sumptuous orchestral suite in the style of the French Baroque. The work's first movement separates a stately introduction and conclusion with a glittering allegro. Here Wilkins's interpretation was scrupulously authentic, notably in the crisply...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Playing an Eclectic Blend | 11/1/1977 | See Source »

In the days of John L. Lewis, when the United Mine Workers called a strike it sometimes seemed that a mighty union was holding the entire nation for ransom. Once again a coal strike looms-but if 165,000 U.M.W. members walk out of the pits on Dec. 7, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Striking out of Weakness? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Jero staves off the competition in the prophet business by giving his devotees just what they want-- old-fashioned religion, with accents on fervent prayer and self-denial: "I know they are dissatisfied, because I keep them dissatisfied!" In the meantime, he has delusions of grandeur and "a weakness for...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: A Sharp-Tongued Savior | 10/21/1977 | See Source »

By implication the groups have challenged CHUL and the other student-faculty committees. They seek to step into the vacuum in the organized presentation of student opinions to the administration, a vacuum CHUL and the other committees have left unfilled. CHUL's primary problem runs deep, to its original Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Government | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

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