Word: poltergeists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maxwell Anderson, whose Winterset (1935) is currently in performance at the Loeb. Anderson tried to work modern themes into the dramatic contexts of his plays without overwhelming the drama for the sake of the message. Sometimes it worked-as in High Tor, a delightful play about "progress" and a poltergeist-inhabited mountain overlooking the Hudson River...
...something as integral to Harvard students' lives as the meal system, relatively little is known about it. There are the rumors, of course. (No, the menus aren't really planned by a poltergeist who lives in Widener D level--it's an extremely nice woman in the basement of the Union.) And there are innumerable questions posed over the meatless chile con carne and the meal on a muffin. For example, why do I have to pay the full board fee if I never eat breakfast? Why does Adams have realcoffee, and Eliot doesn't? And perhaps most important...
Mike Fahey came back to haunt Harvard yesterday. The 5 ft. 11 in poltergeist from Branders (who scored 25 points to lead the Judges in an upset over the Crimson on the hard-court last February) hexed the Harvard bats yesterday as he pitched Brandeis to a 4-1 victory in Waltham...
...task clearly beyond Edward Berkely, who has directed the revival at Joseph Papp's Newhouse Theater in Manhattan. He has interred the play in 20th century sentimentality. The actors do their own thing, and the play becomes farce. Unloved Helena is a coy baby-talker and Poltergeist Puck a Harlem Globetrotter; the fairy attendants are reduced to midgets, and Bottom bloats into a wisecracking...
...example, usually ends with Coppelius seeming to dismantle the doll Olympia before Hoffmann's horrified eyes. He does so in the new production, but then Coppelius and a happy flesh-and-blood Olympia (Soprano Beverly Sills) are seen embracing behind a curtain. Obviously the girl is part poltergeist, too, and in league with Lucifer...