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...excellence of last night's show depended primarily upon the skill of the principal characters. Actually, the show is Joey's, and the profiency of Richard France in that role was the most important element. His flawless stage presence and general savoir faire held the production together, and seemed to impart to the other players the confidence they so surely indicated. Mr. France played the part to at; his voice was serviceable and clear, his dancing dazzling...
...work for a while and get other jobs-as domestic servants, for instance. On another occasion he reproduced a blob of pigment in the Times, then proceeded to subject it to the kind of analysis that an avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire on the prevalent gobbledygook, and by implication at least, it lumped all abstract expressionism together as one big hoax...
...solecistic analyses of form. A most interesting example of galloping ineptitude includes the following sentence, whose prose more or less captures the spirit of all the Advocate critics: "Right or wrong, we are all like Rabbit, but only Rabbit runs, not escaping, though there is that too, an element of panic in his flight, but towards an impossible freedom and meaning, which, if captured, would cut through the sticky tangle of life...
...have implied at various times that he is a wild man, a scalawag, or, perhaps merely a misguided materialist. He himself has come up with at least one scheme--the project on the Charles River--that taxed the credulity of many. But, strikingly if haphazardly he represents the one element that is missing in the Cambridge and Harvard approach to redevelopment: dynamism. He has shown that officials and city planners are wrong and that something concrete can be done, if someone is willing...
...walks through the Square has an opportunity to observe the loose morals and easy ways prevalent among this generation of students. I may be old fashioned in my ways but I have always felt that the observance of a certain moral standard, un code morale, was an essential element that must be implanted in the very heart of the student so that he is better equipped to face the slings and arrows of life in the outside world. You have done a dis-service to the community and the college by disgracing your columns with this trash. Our youth...