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...Courage, made her an ardent, spunky, dutiful young girl, and graced her with luck as well as pluck. The Caucasian Chalk Circle's essential mood is playful and bucolic. But anything bucolic in this repertory production at New York's Lincoln Center is lost in the grinding whirr of revolving stages and the clanking rise and fall of scenery. The music, crucial to any decent Brecht production, seems to have been composed by a tone-deaf mute. Watching the cast's birdlike masks and flaming Oriental finery is far better than watching their acting, for the troupe...
Ellie (in great distress): I dont's know what to bee-YOW vooma VOOMA. Please, may I speak to HONK whirr leave me. I can't bear...
...Dial the new number. Wait until you hear a maddening shrieking electronic whirr. This is a signal that the number you have dialed does not exist...
After a time his voice rather gets on your nerves, even though an impersonal tone is perhaps just right for this kind of poetry. Much of Eliot's violent and intellectually lush symbolism really is a way of escaping from the whirr and bang of feelings into an impersonal, almost codified moral and aesthetic order; and his reading, like his poetry, too often has the deadness and woodenness of perfect peace. Even when Eliot reads a passage like this from his New Hampshire "Landscape...
Perhaps the most controversial feature of Open's policies is its policy of open recruiting of all students. A battery of giant IBM sorting and filing machines whirr night and day in an attempt to improve the Open student body and make it even more well-rounded. The IBM's spew forth a thumbnail description of a worthy undergraduate every seven and one half minutes. Armed with this information, the Open recruiters converge on the area (the machines always specify an area, though not the name) and sift the local high school youth for the man who mostly nearly approximates...