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FOLLOWING THE inauspicious debut of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1791, the music critic of the Berlin Musikalisches Wochenblatt remarked that the opera had "not won the much hoped for and expected acclaim, on account of its inferior text and subject matter." Even so, the magical spectacle and symbolism that makes up what is perhaps Mozart's most popular opera continues to win the hearts of many music-lovers and theater-goers alike. That is, when the opera is performed well, which is definitely not the case at the Lowell House Opera's current rendition...
...Harvard any move toward more fast food will have to be prompted by a groundswell of popular acclaim. Walcott claims that conflicting requests make it impossible for food service innovations to please everyone. "Vegetarians want more vegetarian dishes, meat eaters want more roast beef," Walcott says. "When we feel that a representative number of students want something that can be accomodated, we give it much better consideration than if it comes as an individual personal request...
...William F. Fore, communication secretary at the National Council of Churches, asserts that the televangelists "have been willing to buy enormous popularity, power and income at the expense of their own integrity." Measuring Christian teaching by the popular acclaim it wins, writes Australian Protestant Minister Peter Horsfield in Religious Television: The American Experience (1984), "has been rejected from the earliest beginnings of the Christian faith." Other critics say that TV subordinates the reflective aspects of Christianity to emotive material that affords instant gratification and entertainment. Political differences underlie some of the sniping, of course. Liberals are upset because their criticisms...
Part III: the restaurant; heartbreak; sudden acclaim...
...Gund Hall: Gund Hall has received uniform acclaim from critics as a magnificant blend of later day Internationalism with the environment. In particular, this 1969 creation of John Andrews is praised for its ingenious blending with Memorial Hall.Crimson file photosbottom right, Holyoke Center arcade...