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...undergraduate named Achilles (John Kemp). Gentry Sanger, our host for the evening, is a notorious faggot who "oozes into Widener" to pick up new boyfriends. Paul Schmidt plays him with reptilian smoothness. He wriggles and postures and drawls through airy marvels of sinister affectation. He is the devil in drag. His counterpart Ann Timmons (Joanna Vogel) coldly pursues men. She snatches up innocent victims like Achilles, inflames them and casts them off. Ann is supposed to be bitchy, but Miss Vogel is too callous to make me believe she could arouse anyone's lust. Peter Gaylord (Peter Hoagland) loves...
Despite a slightly slow start, the first movement did not drag under Swoboda's baton, and the orchestra produced sounds with shapes totally absent in the performance of the Beethoven. The orchestra had a few problems: the strings sounded a little thin and scattered in the extreme upper register during the fourth movement, while the low woodwinds occasionally picked the wrong notes. But Swoboda and the orchestra did capture the excitement and variety of the larger forms within each movement, and the Brahms, which ended the program, mitigated the effects of the Beethoven...
...suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become a sort of folk hero of the spreading ragtime cult...
...Paul Heller, heard of the old Clothier mansion in Wynnewood on Philadelphia's Main Line, lately vacated by a starchy prep school for girls. The Perrys made a $2,000 donation to the Armenian church group that had taken the place over-and they were in. Many movies drag on for weeks, months', and sometimes years in the making. This one was shot in 25 days-because it had to be if the money was to hold out. The Perrys projected each day's rushes on two sheets of shelf paper tacked to the wall of their...
...argument that the tax cuts should not be piled atop a big budget deficit, Kennedy counters with sophisticated rhetoric. The basic reason for the deficit, he says, is not that the federal budget is too fat, but that taxes are too high. Such taxes, the argument runs, drag down the economy, reduce corporate and personal income?and thereby shrink federal revenues. Tax reduction will get the economy moving faster, increase profits, incomes and tax revenues. Accordingly, argues the President, the increased margin of deficit resulting from tax reduction in 1963 would be a "temporary deficit of transition," a sort...