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McCoy Tyner finishes off a strong week with a six-day outing at the Jazz Workshop beginning Sunday. Tyner is another brillant planist who has gone far past the days when he played second to John Coltrane. This mostly romantic player will bring his usual stable of excellent back-up musicians and some new numbers to the Workshop...
...Proposition is still doing its hilariously brillant improvisational routines at 241 Hampshire St. in Inman Sq. Not even the fathead who sent in that note about "The Threepenny Opera" can deny that this is good. (By the way, keep those cards and letters coming in.) Tonight and tomorrow at 8 and 10; $3 this evening, $4 on Saturday...
...even written funny comic operas, but no one before or since Verdi has taken a full orchestra and the incredibly indiscreet apparatus of grand opera and wheedled out of them a 100 per cent foolproof light comedy. Verdi himself only did the trick once--in his last and most brillant opera, Falstaff...
...first half, Harvard's play was its finest since the 33-32 upset of Princeton last February. The Crimson hit on 531 per cent of its shots. Dressler, who sank five for six in the half and scored 17 points in the game, looked brillant on both offense and defense. McClung did a fine job guarding the Huskies' All-East center 6 ft 8in. Toby Kimball and outscored the UConn star...
...Harvard, according to the guide, the student body includes both brillant minds and "just good, ordinary, decent human beings." Princeton, however, "unlike some other leading institutions.. is reluctant to take a chance on those who display unusually creative talents in a single area, no matter how brillant they...