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...water in constant motion does not freeze. This is not completely to the good; the old landed families, for all their stuffiness, produced standards and had the authority to enforce them. It will be the responsibility of America's New Guard, busily working up on charities and civic enterprises and into the Social Register, to nurture an elite of service to counterbalance the merely rich, chic and amusing internationals whom Vogue calls "the Beautiful People," and Women's Wear Daily calls "the Arrogants and Elegants...
...George J. Hearn. Georgia's adjutant general: "The Guard is a kind of livelihood for boys in the country and in small towns." More than that, the Guard armory is often a town's most impressive edifice, and a social mecca of food sales, high school graduations, civic meetings and basketball games...
...Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra is a local group of some 64 people who cleverly describe themselves as "semi-professional" musicians. This is clever because no one, least of all a critic, knows just what a "semi-professional" musician is, and therefore can have no reasonable idea of just how good one ought to be. For this reason most critics will be nice, because even a music critic would rather appear nice than look confused. And so it goes...
...least so it went until Tuesday night. At that point the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra committed the irreparable blunder of presenting a public concert which rather swiftly defined their status: a "semi-professional" musician, the world may at last know, is a poorish amateur musician who wants you to pay good money to hear him play...
...renowned acoustics of Sanders Theatre will be shown off tomorrow evening when the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra gives a special concert there...