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Thinking ahead along these lines, the head of the Opera Guild suggested that the College Administration restrict participation in a House play to only members of that House. This would be a boon to the College-wide groups, but would ruin House drama, which has been a most enjoyable part of Harvard Theatre. The scheduling power of the new committee, moreover, should not be used to make it difficult for a House group to find a place to rehearse...
...sale only highlights the climax of a trend of many years. The market value of such paintings seemed to have reached a peak five or ten years ago, yet it has doubled or quadrupled during the last few years. Such a state of affairs would seem to be a boon for art dealers; their problems, however, have increased, for the work of most modern French masters is today comfortably settled on the walls of American museums and private collections. Almost nothing, let alone important work, is available...
Others followed rival leaders, such as Sam Francis or Robert Motherwell, or sought out stylistic byways they could almost call their own. The byways were apt to be dignified with mysterious road signs: Boon, Creation, Fluxus, Rite, House of Venus I. James Ernst coyly offered a Painting with a Secret Title, which resembled a tangle of TV antennas. Such literary hints and gestures were a change from the blunt titles of abstractions in the last few Whitney annuals, which gave merely a number or a date. Possibly more abstract expressionists were beginning to think in terms of meanings, whether...
...echoed the Daily Mail. But Lord Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of England and the father of four daughters (one out last year, one coming out in the last batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high as ?1,000) the daughters of better-heeled but less nobly born parents. Said Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, headmistress...
...promote higher productivity, not resist it, Swayduck has fought the featherbedding that made many a printshop worker resemble, in Swayduck's words, "the guy in the orchestra who waits for two hours, then bangs the cymbals together once, then leans back again." Automation, Swayduck believes, is a boon to workers, not a menace. "If it helps get products to the consumer more cheaply," he says, "it's going to broaden activity in the industry and provide more jobs...