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...been criticized for being something less, or more, than rock. It is, in fact, an elegant pastiche, swiftly paced and highly styled, that does not sound like show music but has something for everybody: a curtain-raising blues number to loosen up the audience, a winsome torch song sung to the sleeping Jesus by an awed Mary Magdalene, and a campy Charleston-like piece that allows King Herod, outrageously turned out as a transvestite, to make fun of Jesus: "Prove to me that you're no fool, walk across my swimming pool...
...lyricists they're a long, long way from the current sophistication of a Stephen Sondheim. Twenty-seven years later, much of the humor of On the Town comes across as simply dumb. Here and there a nice try, perhaps, but nonetheless dumb. Consider a number like "Carried Away," sung by Ozzie and Claire de Lune, a female anthropologist played by Phillis Newman. (The two parts were played by Comden and Green in the original production.) It starts out promisingly, enough as the two love-crossed stars lament that their repressed natures are all too irrepressible (between the lines...
Frederick D. Weil '73, Lampoon Ibis, led the crowd in the singing of a Dylanesque arrangement of "Nguyen Thieu's Blues," sung to a note of social protest...
...feel every psalm that I've ever sung Turn to wormwood, Wormwood on my tongue...
...began to write his masterwork in the German trenches in the Balkans, where he was serving out the last days of World War I. He sent it home in letters to his mother. Mustered out, Franz Rosenzweig finished Der Stern der Erlösung (The Star of Redemption) in February 1919, just six months after he started it; the book was published two years later in Frankfurt. Since then it has become one of the dominant works of Jewish thought in the 20th century, ranking with those of Martin Buber (I and Thou), a friend of Rosenzweig's. Thanks...