Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor French deserves the highest praise for training the chorus in behavior, which was sufficiently indifferent to the action on stage, and for precise cooperation. The hymn-like a cappella sections of the finale were perfectly beautiful. But Malcolm Holmes, the conductor, cannot be given such plaudits. Although the orchestra showed its capabilities, he failed on several attacks and seldom succeeded in subduing the instrumentalists in time to get the soloists' first phrases...
...wonderful--fast and beautiful and marvelously ingenious. And so is the supporting cast, especially Myron McCormick as Luther and Betta St. John as Liat. And so is Ezio Pinza, whose voice is such a miracle that it probably does not matter that the words he lavishes it on cannot be understood...
...will take his work seriously. Many European universities have a loosely-knit system under which the student needs only to take a cursory examination at the end of the school year to receive full credit for courses he has hardly bothered to attend. The College, says the Dean, cannot take the chance that one of the four years spent in preparation for the degree will be wasted...
...have repeatedly said that we are both willing to resign if that is the wish of the congregation. I cannot withdraw from this fight so long as my congregation wishes me to stay...
...that a third world war is inevitable. "Today there are assets for peace which were wholly lacking before World War II." Specifically, he said, "we are largely cured of the illusion that words are a substitute for deeds, and we know that a just and durable peace cannot be achieved merely by ... heads of states meeting to proclaim...