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...institution significantly named the Donner Pass College for Women, the author pits a pair of middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...
CALLING FOR HELP, by Peter Handke, and the futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's VLADAMIR MAYAKOVSKY: A TRAGEDY. Well, maybe not a tragedy. But I sure wouldn't want to call it an unqualified success either. Cambridge Ensemble Theater at the Old Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
Well I didn't barf last Saturday (I learned my lesson over the summer when, staying with friends in, of all places, a Baptist church, I lost my sneakers in full view of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I did, however, have my sneakers (brand new) stolen while almost drowning in the soup off Newport Beach. What any of this has to do with anything else (especially what follows), I really...
CALLING FOR HELP: A TRAGEDY. Opens tonight at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
...Baptist evangelist from Alabama, Sherrill grew up touring the South with his parents, playing piano at the "tent meetin's" and other functions where his father preached. He traces the beginning of his career as a professional musician to earning $10 for playing at a funeral at the age of ten. Although he had no formal musical training, by his teens he could play half a dozen instruments. After finishing high school, he took up the life of an itinerant rock musician, playing mostly piano and saxophone with bands in Tennessee and Alabama and sleeping...