Word: appearance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With about 96 per cent of next year's class already admitted, Elder said acceptances will continue through the summer. If "some mute, inglorious Milton" should appear, he will not be turned away, Elder remarked. "There's always a loophole for excellence at Harvard," he continued...
...trudging up to the oaken doors and painted windows through which no light will enter for the next two weeks, the men of 14 Plympton Street this morning agreed to diminish light all over the University, and thus will not appear in public until Friday, will hide beneath bushels next week except for Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday...
...with a few words about the book's uneven level of photographic achievement. The high-points are some very nice portraits of professors and several pictures best described as "moody." There are many candidates for the low-point, but the worst would seem to be the PBH photographs that appear to have been taken through a bowl of split pea soup. Many other photographs are out of focus, poorly lit, and just plain dull. (Not to mention the upside-down shot on page 231.) One of the most annoying technical failures of the Yearbook photographers is their apparent inability...
...after the bravos, for stars and host alike, there was one sonorous boo from the Washington Post and Times Herald's drama critic, Richard L. Coe. What cooled Coe was the common practice among actors of skipping performances for benefits, TV appearances and the like. That, he argued, is false advertising, since the public is never told in advance that the stars they paid to see will not appear-even when, as in this case, the arrangements were made six weeks...
Calling the Tune.. Author Sheean is fascinated by Verdi's "peasant" response both to the grim tragedies of his youth and the fame of his later years. The words that appear in Verdi's last and perhaps greatest work, Falstaff-"Cammina! Cammina!" (keep going, keep going)-were already his maxim in his null and he kept going at the rate of more than an opera a year. Verdi hated Milan, hated the power of La Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned...