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...opening-night audience sat in stunned silence, then broke into shouts of enthusiasm. They called for Composer Floyd and for Director Frank Corsaro. With Baritone Julian Patrick as George, Tenor Robert Moulson as the doomed half-wit Lennie, and Soprano Carol Bayard as the ranch-house temptress who teases Lennie once too often, Of Mice and Men seems uniquely American. Like Steinbeck's depression-depressed characters, Floyd's opera has calluses on its hands and hot blood in its heart. It will probably be around a long time...
...enough to know who he was, but he wrote for an age that did not quite know what it was. He was, in effect, writing for dead playgoers, many of whom still occupied the theater seats, a situation vividly applicable to the contemporary theater. Restoration comedy thrived on high wit, low morals and ice-cold hearts. But by Farquhar's day, the twin corrupters of that comedy lurked in the wings-virtue, which would bar both wit and lechery from the stage, and romance, which would open the sluices of sentimentality. Traces of this mar Farquhar's last...
...discipline of craft and a reverence for tradition, the English theater retains the renown of greatness because it has behind it an unseen but not an unheard god, the English language. This wonder of wonders is a verdant isle of beauty, a tiara of crystalline delight, a font of wit and wisdom, a burnished mirror of the mind. Born to a noble tongue, Maggie Smith serves it nobly...
...fluctuating age. City Without Walls, containing poems of the past five years, includes nothing to rank with Auden's best. He appears to be long past the writing of wry love poems like "Lullaby." Perhaps more important, nowhere in this collection does he achieve the delicately blended wit and civilized humanity of "In Praise of Limestone," which may be his most beautiful and enduring shorter poem. Yet almost every other level and facet of Auden is present...
...quotes you a price twice as high as he expects to get, you feign shock and make a counter-offer of two-thirds what you're willing to pay, and you whittle each other to the appropriate price. It can be a sport or a chore, depending on the wit and passion of the shopkeeper ("Ah! $5 for hand-made, fine hand-crafted, really real peasant blanket? The joke of my life...