Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they only really shine in person. The group leans mostly toward a countryish sort of tune, always cleverly conceived and masterfully carried out. They've been working pretty often with Earl Scruggs in the past couple of years and they've learned their lessons from the old banjo picking wizard. The reason these dirty boys are so good in concert is that they have an amazingly friendly stage personality. They seem like such good fellows that you can't help but like them. Michael Stanley will also be playing at the Performance I. Shows...
...Drama Center staged passable productions all year, but the whole center--and Harvard drama in general--concentrated on standard, light-weight plays done many times before. The Spring saw a half-dozen old musicals, with outstanding performances of two: the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Ruddigore, and Dunster House's Wizard of Oz. But serious drama had no spectacular successes. One student-written play was among the best stage productions of the year: The Teeth of Mons Herbert, by Philip Lazebnik...
...genre never faded permanently. As Cott points out, rock musicians, like Donovan, dabble in variations of fairy lore; professors, like Tolkein, study the Silent Moving Ones; and Victorian imagination persists in the social and political satire of "The Wind in the Willows" or "The Wizard of Oz." Susan Sontag relates that the North Vietnamese Women's Union rehabilitated thousands of prostitutes after the liberation of Hanoi from France in 1954 by telling them fairy stories and encouraging children's games. "That," a spokesman explained, "was to restore their innocence and give them faith again in man. You see, they...
Columnar Thighs. Here are the classic bolts of melody: Judy Garland traveling the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz; the unfinished face of Frank Sinatra apostrophizing Manhattan in On the Town; Fred Astaire, the world's most sophisticated stick figure, dancing on the ceiling in Royal Wedding; Gene Kelly's soaking-wet aria in Singin'in the Rain...
...some humorous things. For example, there would be a fund-raising dinner, and he hired Wayne the Wizard to fly in from the Virgin Islands to perform a magic show. He sent invitations to all the black diplomats and sent limousines out to have them picked up and they hadn't been invited. He had 400 pizzas sent to another--P. Sure! what the hell! Pranks! Tuck did all those things in 1960, and all the rest...