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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their (expensive) services. But what sort of a government would inflict nuclear power on its citizens? Governments like those in South Korea, South Africa, and the Philippines, which the U.S. is selling nukes to. Governments like Brazil, Pakistan and Argentina would also like to buy into nukes, and a whole host of other undemocratic regims are interested...
...wonder, since we have only five minutes, if I might make two observations. One of them is that this meeting is, I hope, an opportunity to share just how frustrating and difficult a situation we confront, where we all share very deeply a sense of outrage against a whole set of practices which are deeply inhumane. But nonetheless, the situation is very difficult. One of the difficulties, of course, is that the ultimate step of divestment, to give up the threat of real penalty to a corporation, is not necessarily that at all. Unfortunately, various corporate executives have indicated...
...itself to adaptation into a Broadway musical, Voltaire's Candide does. It is funny enough in its own right that one only needs to set music to the text to get a slick and enjoyable musical comedy. In many instances, Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler do exactly that, quoting whole passages straight out of the book. Bernstein's music--which the orchestra performs excellently--parodies opera, Bach, the conventions of Broadway musicals, and a lot in between. The whole satiric pastiche is topped off with lyrics that are faithful to the wry, ironic wit of the book...
About the only thing that could ruin Candide would be slow pacing. Given enough time to dwell on the frothiness of the whole thing, many audiences might become wearied with the obvious foolishness of Dr. Pangloss and company. To guard against such a reaction, Director George Hamlin has turned Candide into a three-ring circus that moves at the speed of light. The set sprawls the width of the theater, using the balconies over the theater entrance and a walkway that cuts through the 30 or 40 seats in the pit. Actors appear from every door in the theater, sometimes...
...kind of a waste of a 2000-meter piece," captain and six seat Jeff Cooley said yesterday. "We'd take five or ten long strokes and then get hit by a wake. It was sloppy the whole length down...