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Guys and Dolls offers a nonpareil text and score, and a creative team so impressive that before the first preview, a year-long national tour starting in September had already been booked around the U.S. But the $5.5 million staging of composer-lyricist Frank Loesser's comic gem will be hard pressed to equal the emotional impact of his Most Happy Fella, telling of an inept but earnest quest for love by a hulking, homely immigrant farmer in California's Napa Valley. The book, also by Loesser, is intermittently burdened with the same irritating cuteness and insincerity that lumbers Crazy...
...rosy dawn". They recall the opening bars of the "Creation" and their evocation of the primeval chaos. Glen Wilson's playing is tightly controlled here, and Carolyn Wilson's entry achieves the innocent tentativeness of a newly awakened victim of infidelity that Haydn's setting of the text seems to prescribe...
...viewer can take advantage of all these sources to learn more about this particular storage jar and the culture that produced it. He or she can read about Theseus in its original primary text. He or she can look at other swords, vases and fashion from the period and other periods and compare them. Perseus thus opens up the questions and possibilities for analysis and study of Greek culture...
...attributes this success to the database's open-ended possibilities for creativity and exploration, rather than its maintenance of academic dogma, both in method and content. Crane believes that most students are "sick of text books and canned answer...
...wrinkled paper is yellow with age, like some ancient parchment. The letterhead is partly torn off. The text--scribbled with an old-style fountain pen so that the end of each sentence is much fainter than its beginning--is hard to make out. The date reads September...