Word: auditoria
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...Mikado. The production lacks exuberance, but it's still solid Gilbert and Sullivan and that should help just about anyone's term-paper blues. At the Agassiz (a wonderful theater, incidentally, with good acoustics and a sense of intimacy unique among Harvard's auditoria, even if it is structurally unsound), tonight, tomorrow...
Proliferating jargon is a good indication of the bewildering variety of musical organizations, clubs, societies, performing groups, concert series, and auditoria that make up the Harvard musical world. As any musically inclined freshman will tell you, the newcomer to Cambridge is faced with a wide variety of opportunities to express himself in music and, especially at certain times of the year (early December and May) a plethora of musical events to attend...
...complaint of post-War functional architects in the U. S. has been their lack of opportunity to design churches to look like what they are: auditoria. Chief obstacles have been the clergy's caution and a widespread public conviction that ecclesiastical architecture is divorced from the common clay of other 20th Century buildings, should reflect age-old architectural traditions...
Abolition of the luxury tax on theatre tickets, more WPA, establishment of modern auditoria from coast to coast to accommodate better road shows, a revolving fund for producers, more summer theatres, free seats for proven drama lovers were all discussed. But the Theatre's overpowering problem, the one which came in for far greater attention than any other and was worried over, snarled at, solved and despaired of by much the most important people at the convention was, of course, HOLLYWOOD...
...more acceptable to those who are vulnerable to drafts and had ventilation. Hans Sachs would point the further moral that now that Harvard has a chapel, a Geography Institute, a business school, and seven well-run hotels, it might well replace Sanders Theater as the last word in auditoria...