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...editorial columns, he lectured the students on such topics as the meaning of personality: "A combination of altruistic feelings, novel purposes, talents and individuality. Let your brow touch the sky. Force others to look up." The aims of education: "Developing the highest and best in one. It puts zest and life into existence. It gives purpose and ambition." The evils of cynicism: "Which will you be - a builder or a destroyer? A constructor or a smasher of ideas? A blessing to the world or a curse upon it? It all rests with...
...difference is that Writer-Director Don Owen, a gifted 30-year-old Canadian, approaches his rusty theme the way a junk sculptor approaches a scrap heap-with zest and spirit and an evergreen appetite for discovery. Improvising action and dialogue, Owen achieves a cinema of spontaneity. His film is choked with words, yet the words effectively express the jumpy, inarticulate restlessness of youth...
...tells us that South Pacific provides "ample opportunities for book-weary students to unwind." Well, so why didn't they unwind? How come they slouched through two and a half hours as if the performance were a second run through? How come they had no timing, no pace, no zest? The kindest answer is that the show needs works (South Pacific's been afflicted with almost as many unforeseen difficulties as Cleopatra) and there can be no doubt that next weekend, when the cast feels more secure, it will be a damn sight more entertaining...
There is usually little zest to life in Sikkim, India's tiny protectorate in the Himalayas. For day-to-day kicks, some citizens can only contemplate the crags of majestic Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, marvel at the gay flowers that grow in profusion beneath its peaks, or laugh gaily at the frolicking wild pandas of the region. But last week excitement galore gripped the populace as chic photographers, starchy diplomats and perfumed post-debs from abroad suddenly inundated the charming little capital of Gangtok...
Five plays appear on Harvard stages tonight, but the Adams House Drama society has simplified the choice. You can't do much better than Adams' production of The Beggar's Opera. from the beggar's entrance to the full-cast choral finale it bounces with such bawdy, malevolent zest that every minute is a theatrical...