Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday night, the Band gave the first in a projected series of free concerts in Sanders Theater. I generally find the sound of a concert band a refreshing change from the usual orchestral or chamber music fare, but this time I'm afraid the Band was not up to snuff. Only a week beyond the end of the football season and undoubtedly depressed by the sight of a bare hundred people scattered sparsely through Sanders Theatre, the Band sounded dispirited and underrehearsed. Intonation throughout the concert was of the sickly sort one expects from a band but which...
...fashioned art of telling a story, crowd management, and letting characters speak in their own voice. The prevailing tone is one of bitchiness, an atmosphere more tolerable and customary in the theater than in fiction. There are scenes in the book that make Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? seem idyllic. The dialogue, thanks to a flair for dating and placing people, is impeccably tailored for period and person. As for a sense of class, without which no English novelist can hope to function, Wilson's is as sound as the doorman's at Claridge...
...time factor worked in Andrews' favor. The University, afraid of slowing design and thus construction, allowed him a relatively free hand in the design...
...promotion, why are some industries afraid to tell us both the good and bad sides? To put it in the campus idiom, why can't business "lay it on the line?" Sincerely, Fred W. Sayre University of Arizona...
Heckscher responded immediately, "Henry Reed has a mistaken pastoral ideal of parks and landscapes. He simply doesn't like to see things happen in the parks. But what good is a park if people are afraid to use it?" Litter is a problem, but Heckscher is happier worrying about garbage than violence and vandalism. "We've been lucky in the parks," he says. "We've been able to work great changes by simply calling upon the people, by saying 'Come on in, the weather's fine.' And the people have responded...