Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most satisfying D-Minor on records. The new reissue is not in mono or in phony stereo, however. Back in 1954, four years before the advent of stereo, RCA was already experimenting with the technique, and taped this performance simultaneously but separately in stereo. The results can stand comparison with many of today's recordings...
These two performances make Deborah Jean Templin's Desiree look very good by comparison. Templin, who plays an actress who is always on and the director of the matrimonial musical chairs, has life, presence and a wardrobe of elegant costumes. She can also sing--not as stunningly, perhaps, as one might wish, but well enough to convey the poignant irony of the show's finest song, "Send in the Clowns." In her case, a stronger directorial hand would surely have added luster to an already adequate performance...
...showed that it sought a radical departure from the present 60 Boylston St. style. Peck's background, to be simplistic, is an intramural one. The intensity of the athletic department at Williams simply does not measure up to Harvard's, as the former's intercollegiate program pales in comparison to the latter...
...past experience, I worked four summers at a camp on Cape Cod, so this job should be a piece of cherry-covered cheese cake by comparison...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, refuses to discuss the economic aspects of the negotiations. But others familiar with the talks are quick to point out that the union's comparison of itself to the local municipal forces is not necessarily accurate. Though Harvard's police are no longer mere security guards, they do not usually face the same dangers as the city police. "You don't get too many armed robberies in Houghton Library," one police official said recently. Harvard administrators also dismiss the union's argument that the reduced fringe benefits will discourage future employment...