Word: reading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rehearsals and performances. Also because of the direction of John Posner, who's led the HGSP orchestra out of its mid-'70s doldrums. The theater walls are peeling a bit this year, but the Agassiz still drops this orchestra endearingly in the audience's lap. Too bad the players read the Sunday Times or Weber when they're not actually playing...
...read about S.J. Perelman's death [Oct. 29] shortly after I had discovered and was still reading A Child's Garden of Curses. There's no doubt about the man's ingenuity, and the death of such an amusing character is a pity. I'm sure that now even the saints won't be able to keep a straight face with him and his writing around...
...Shaak wrote her master's thesis on the way children's books deal with death. She discovered a "grandfather's gone on a long trip" evasiveness. Her charges read books like A Taste of Blackberries, in which a child dies of bee stings...
...Bush seems surprised at the support he has been getting. When he finished third to Reagan and Connally at an unofficial Florida "convention" (see following story), Bush did not believe an aide reporting the results. In his confusion, the candidate could not find his glasses so that he could read the tallies himself. "Count 'em again," he said. "Count 'em again...
...many of the same people who brought you Not The New York Times--is an ideal excuse to put of writing your Gov paper, to relax with when it's too gauche to drink beer and watch football with your undershirt on, junk food for the intellectual cynic. If read slowly, selectively, this compendium of facetiae should beat just about any conceivable true-to-life rehashes of the grey cripple of a decade that will limp (or roll) off to oblivion in just one more month...