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Demand for tickets to The Game was so strong that, for the first time since Harvard football's heyday of the 1920s, the Harvard Athletic Association (HAA) limited students to two tickets apiece...
...that Monday's Crimson, J. Anthony Lewis '48 called Yale weekend a throwback to the 1920s, citing "Cars blocking streets half a mile up Massachusetts Avenue...crowds jamming every restaurant, bar, cafeteria and drugstore around the Square...flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, wrapping themselves around the flagpoles...
Goulet's original songs are all enjoyable, and there is a pleasantly subversive contrast between the jaunty, 1920s style music and ironic lyrics. Some of the tunes borrow from Parker's poetry, which works surprisingly well in songs like "Poets Alone Should Kiss and Tell" and "Sunshine." The ensemble song "Men (I'm Not Married To)" also turns a sardonic concept into a buoyant musical number. But cast members often had to struggle to be heard over the accompanying band, so that in many cases the music was heard but the words were muffled...
Everyone involved in Not Much Fun should be commended for taking Parker's work seriously. Despite the stories' genuine wit and highly-charged emotional undertones, they could easily be used to mock the culture of the 1920s...
After a calamitous decade of billion-dollar losses and misdirected diversification, General Motors Corp. is attempting to reinvent the wheel. In the 1920s, its chairman and creator, Alfred P. Sloan, decreed, "General Motors will be known for building cars for every purse and purpose." As part of a stunning, perhaps even desperate, act of corporate rebirth, GM is spending a suitably giant-size $6 billion this year to launch a fleet of 16 new vehicles. The goal is to occupy rediscovered market niches, and begin the next decade's equally awesome mission--reclaiming its lost automotive empire...