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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...
Regarding student practice of the creative arts at Harvard, the less said the better. Apart from the very competent student orchestras who provide an audible museum of long-dead and mostly romantic composers, the picture is dismal. I attended a number of undergraduate theatricals and they were all terrible. The Lampoon and the Advocate are significantly worse than even most English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts...
...fundamental problem which Harvard ignores almost completely. Again it is paradoxical that such a brilliant department--which makes Harvard one of the best places in the world to study history, at least as a graduate student--should transmit so little of its wealth to non-specialists. However, apart from the institutional problems of trying to do everything in no-time flat, the very scholarly brilliance of the departments must bear a good deal of the blame...
...undergraduate when he sees a painting flashed up on the screen no more appreciates it than a non-mathematician understands algebraic topology. The trouble is that he thinks he has taken all that the painting has to give and nobody is likely to disillusion him. Does anybody at Harvard--apart from a handful of experts--ever do more than glance at the early Italian paintings in the Fogg...
...third quarter opened with Harvard trying to blow the game apart, scoring on its first possession after the kickoff. The 75-yd., eight-play drive hinged on a 44-yd. St. John-to-Horner sideline streaker that ended when Horner was bumped out of bounds at the Penn three. Two plays later, Hollingsworth took the pitchout in for the score from four yards out; but Cody's wide PAT try left the score...