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THERE ARE perhaps a half dozen musicals which are done by almost all amateur groups sooner or later--and Guys and Dolls is, without question, one of them. Many of us have already been acquainted with the marvelously larger-than-life, Runyonesque characters in the form of Sky Masterson, Nathan Detroit, or the inimitable Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Thus, the success in presenting Frank Loesser's musical depends, for better or for worse, on the degree to which the performers can live up to a firmly established level of caricature. In this respect, the opening-night Leverett House audience...
...book, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, is about a Save-A-Soul Missionary's (Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost...
...Merritt portrays Nathan with an appropriate and consistent accent, and possesses a good sense of timing. There are several fine comic moments between Nathan and his fiancee of fourteen years, Miss Adelaide (Joann Beckson). Miss Beckson is outstanding, bringing to the role all of the necessary chintziness and gum-cracking, charm, coupled with a comic flair and a powerful voice. Her rendition of "Adelaide's Lament" is delightful, as is her duet with Nathan...
...Free expression," "open market of ideas," words of this kind are stated and re-stated in the publications and the speeches of such men as Handlin, Hook, and Nathan Glazer, with all the zeal, reiteration and hypnosis of the most expensive media-promotion. There is, however, one essential item absent from the standard presentation: Intellectual license is not serious, solid or substantial--certainly it is formidably circumscribed in implication--if, prior to words and long preceding deeds, our yearnings themselves are in such firm constraint that we no longer even wish to do that which, if we could wish...
...statement was drafted Monday and Tuesday by Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Sociology, and professor Edward Shils of the University of Chicago...