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...feet. Sullivan and Thrope prove excellent foils in brisk repartee during their duet. "When I Go Out of Doors," as Bunthorne tries to convince Grosvenor to become more homely. All of the songs are enjoyable, but none sticks in our minds: the show consequently becomes a pleasant blur a perfect G&S aperitif...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Appeal | 7/12/1983 | See Source »

Before settling the case and putting Chaldea in the rear-view mirror once more, the doughty private investigator rediscovers an old love, uncovers some long-suppressed secrets, and puts Billy's pregnant lady on the road to social security. Things occur without apparent order but with the haphazard blur of ripening crops and turning leaves, as Midwest-raised Author Stephen Greenleaf knows they should. As for Investigator Tanner, in his fourth fictional appearance, he is once again the small-town boy making good, and better, and better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was one of the supreme portrait painters has never been in doubt. Anyone who has been to the National Gallery in London and seen his painting of The Ambassadors - two wary young traders amid their pellucid clutter of emblematic objects, with an anamorphic blur of a skull floating strangely across the inlaid floor -knows that at once. Together with his older contemporary, Albrecht Dürer, Hol bein represents the point at which German painting shook clear of its Gothic past and its folk ties, entering and interpreting the great Renaissance streams of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Clear Eye, Flawless Touch | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

Several organizations have long histories and established traditions which blur the significance of such approval. But to a slew of others. College recognition obtained by petitioning the student faculty College Life committee--can give their endeavors instant credibility, allowing them to poster, use College facilities and seek funding from the Undergraduate Council. It puts the Chess Club on a level with the Rugby Club, and allows brand new literary magazines to publish and distribute door to door, just like the Harvard Advocate, which has produced hundreds of issues and some literary grants since its founding...

Author: By Meredith E. Greene and Janet A. Titus, S | Title: A Club of One's Own | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...hard to remember specifics from a nightmare when you wake up, my answers are a blur, but I recall quite vividly each question she detonated in her allotted twenty minutes: What was the effect of the French Revolution on American politics-can you think of any specific policies it altered? What were the reforms of the early 1800's? Discuss the two "Great Awakenings" and how they differed in scope and audience. What was the Gilded age, and from where did it derive its name? Did World War I put an end to the Progressive...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Capital Punishment | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

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