An American Romance book review by John Casey
A measured review praises An American Romance for its musical humor and rich language while faulting the plot for overelaborate scenes and too tidy resolution. It notes Anya and Mac as vivid contrasts, their Iowa college milieu, and the novel’s thoughtful portrayal of university life, art, and love. Casey’s fiction is deemed ambitious and humane.
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Anya
John Casey
Mac
Tassie
Henniker
Radcliffe
Cornell
Iowa
Casey
Aldous Huxley
Henry James
D.H. Lawrence
Proust
Falstaff
New York
Thoreau
The Plug-In-Drug book review and cautions
A dense critical review of Marie Winn's The Plug-In Drug argues television harms children and families more than its content. It cites studies and experts, including Nicholas Johnson, to claim TV alters consciousness, reduces play, and erodes cognitive and social development. The piece notes Winn offers few solutions, predicting heavy debate and possible policy interventions.
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Marie Winn
Marshall McLuhan
Mason Williams
Smothers’ Brothers
Kerner
Johnson
Eisenhower Commission
America
U.S
National Citizens Committee For Broadcasting
William Fulbright
Pentagon
National Organization For Women
William Hathaway
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Action For Children’s Television
ACT
Children’s Television Workshop
Winn
E. B. White
Wima
Gresham
Surgeon General
National Institutes of Mental Health
Owen Jennison
Larry Niven
Owen
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum a Boston Gallery in Time
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, founded by Mrs. Gardner, preserves a Venetian style mansion opened in 1903. The public spaces mix diverse art and period rooms, with a greenhouse, concerts led by a music director, and a courtyard reading nook. The collection includes Rembrandts, Sargent works, Titian praise, and quirky items like Browning hair and autographs.
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Boston
UPI
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Linda V. Hewitt
Gardners
Titian
Sargent
Robert Browning
Gardner
Jazz and Bach concerts on Williams campus in April
Williams College hosts a Jazz Ensemble concert April 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. in Chapin Hall with a 50 cent door charge, featuring 19 students performing Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman era jazz. Don Griffin Hall Concerts ends with an all Bach program the same day at 8 p.m. with harpist Janet Geroulo and Victor Hill, a Williams math professor, performing Bach arias, flutes, and Well-Tempered Clavier pieces. A Brattleboro benefit for Chelsea House Folklore Center follows May 2 at 8:30 p.m. at Chelsea House, with Nick Seeger and Andy Cohen, admission $2.50, reservations 802 257-1482. May 6–7 sees Arwen Mountain String Band at Chelsea House, plus Gemini from Ann Arbor.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Williams Jazz Ensemble
Chapin Hall
Duke Ellington
Satchmo
Benny Goodman
Kings of Jazz
Williams
Don Griffin Hall
Victor Hill
Janet Geroulo
Bach
Arnstadt
Carl XII
Sweden
Miss Geroulo
Hill
Griffin Hall
Franklin County Public Hospital
Pioneer Valley Symphony
Lancaster
Franklin and Marshall College
Brattleboro
Chelsea House Folklore Center
Chelsea House
West Brattleboro
Nick Seeger
Andy Cohen
Arwen Mountain String Band
Williams College Spring Choral Jamboree Sets Four College Groups
Four New England college singing groups will perform at Williams College’s Spring Jamboree on Saturday April 30 at 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall. Participating are the hosts Ephlats and three guest groups the Middlebury Mischords Radcliffe Pitches and the MIT Logarhythms. The Ephlats, a nine man seven woman coed group, will accompany themselves with guitar bass and flute and perform folk folk rock show tunes barbershop numbers and some classical pieces. Harold Kislik is musical director and Peter Gunther is business manager. The Ephlats draw their name from Colonel Ephraim Williams whose bequests helped found the college in 1793. In addition Harvard professor Paul Benichou will give a French lecture at Williams on April 28 at 8 p.m. at Weston Language Center.
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Williamstown
Mass
New England
Williams College
Chapin Hall
Ephrats of
Williams
Middlebury
Ephlats
Harold Kislik
Hewlett, N.Y
Peter Gunther
Newberg
N.Y
Ephra
Paul Benichou
Harvard
Weston
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Fielding
Tolstoy
Melville
Don Quixote
Tom Jones
Pierre
Ishmael
Viking
Nicholas Johnson
the Guardian
The
FCC
Mrs. Gardner’s Museum
Harvard University
Paris
John Singer Sargent
Ms. Hewitt
Mrs. Gardner
Ralph Bakshi
Fos
Pure
Judith Crist
Satusday
Pauline Kael
New Yorker
Coke
EE Leek Ricolos
Windham County
Arwen Mountain
Seth Lichtenstein
Steve Green
Pip
Alexandra Hunt
Vermont Opera Theatre
Globelinks
Metropolitan Opera House
Alban Berg
Lulu
Ms. Hunt
Madame Euterpova
Vermont
Space Opera
Gian Carlo Menotti
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Mages
Spring ST
McDowell
Malcolm
Lindsay
Anderson
Jacademy
Swinner
Walt Disney Productions
Walt Disney Productions Present
Paramount Pictures Presents
Marlo Charles Thomas Grodin
Thieves
Bennington
Lake George
College
Weston Language Center
Woolworth’s
Monument Plaza
Bennington, Vermont
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