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...work until it comes to some that do. The plot is simple enough: Dionysus (Paul Cooper) want to resurrect a great poet to help Athens through a crisis. Accompanied by Xanthias, his slave (Walt Licht), he descends to Hades and presides over a debate between Aeschylus (John Allman) and Euripides (Tom Popovich). Aeschylus triumphs and returns to life, presumably to cure the city of its ills...
...missing contrast between Dionysus and Xanthias is resoundingly present between Aeschylus and Euripides. Allman's craggy, dignified Aeschylus plays off nicely against Popovich's sleek, shallow Euripides. Even though the debate sometimes bogs down, the philosopher and the quibbler are never confused as are the master and the servant...
Most of the show's faults are minor. If Munger's blocking sometimes seems aimless, if Allman is a bit stiff and Popovich a little unsteady, the production washes over it all with a wave of unselfconscious exuberance. The audience has only to lean back and laugh...
...drunk Canadians are creations of T. D. Allman '66. The Dawn of the Super-Renaissance" rises on these two sinners as they sit in the wake of a wild party, reliving their amours. Each is a kind of narcissistic, overgrown adolescent, his dim emotions locked in his sensual tastes. The story is about the feelings that somehow force their way through the pair's collegiate preoccupations. Allman's prose plays over the senses without being heavy-handed. The story moves along rapidly, making graceful transitions between narrative and introspection. With the final knockout punch, feeling--as an emotion, as well...
Harvard Advocate has re-elected Stuart A. Davis '67, of Leverett House of Winchester, to an unprecedented second term as president. Other chosen Monday are Jeremy Wright '68, business manager; Jesse Kornbluth '67, managing editor; John Allman '67, poetry editor; Stephen Kornbluth '67, prose editor; Francine Prose '68, art editor; Amy Johnson '67 secretary; and Peter Shaw '67 Dionysus...