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...addition to these solo works, Kuerti and Silverstein collaborated twice. The Schubert B minor rondo with which they opened the program was disappointing. The performance was disjointed, the phrasing stiff, the lack of rehearsal evident. Insensitive and brusque playing submerged Schubert's lyricism...
Eliot was born in St. Louis in 1888 into a family stiff with tradition. He was raised on rectitude and duty. His books were carefully selected; the Encyclopaedia Britannica was permitted, but Tom Sawyer was not. At Harvard, Eliot took boxing lessons, fell under the influence of Irving Babbitt, a hard-minded classicist who was one of his professors, and was introduced to the poetry of Jules Laforgue...
...Crimson swimmers are rated among the favorites to take the meet but they will have to overcome some stiff opposition, especially from Ivy League runner-up Princeton, which holds a strong home-pool advantage...
Most of the acting is stiff and stock. No one would want the guys in drag to be really capable at female impersonations, but competence rarely threatens the Pudding's stage. David Lewis, as Hera, and Michael Gury, as the Oracle of Housephli and Bulah the maid, are both sure of themselves and appear to have some idea of how to act under utterly farcical conditions. Mark Miller, as Zeus, is mostly a foil for Lewis, and his Nixon imitations were, to say the least, strange in a Pudding Show. Relevance in drag, and in black tie, is always...
...Workers Revolutionary Party (a minuscule Trotskyite group) candidate for Newham Northeast, a London working-class constituency, Comrade Vanessa faces a stiff four-way fight in the upcoming British general election against the incumbent Labor candidate and Tory and Marxist contenders. Although her victory chances are small, Vanessa is emphasizing what she calls "the real issue" of the campaign-"the oppression of workers by the ruling classes." As yet, however, she has not officially agreed with her party leader Gerry Healy's claim that British airfields are now being converted into concentration camps...