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...organized music from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, not only reproducing the notes and words of the music with admirable effect, but in every case grasping the spirit of the writer with a thoroughness and an intelligence truly great. Enunciation was uniformly good, every beginning and ending crisp and precise, ascents and descents of tone were excellently graduated. The men interpreted equally well the gentle philosophy of Praetorious, the resounding energy of Buck's "At Sea," Mendelssohn's smooth and flowing "Huntor's Farewell," and in Morley's enchanting "Now is the Month of Maying," following carefully the feeling...
...William a part eminently suited to his form of artistry. His matter-of-fact yet expressive Americanisms reflect all the more to his credit for interpreting them because they are set in a heavily-contrasting background of English stodginess. It is like a refreshing cold shower to hear his crisp, incisive ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive in the truly British, undemonstrative...
...excellent work performed last summer by a small group of college men in France is clearly set forth in Mr. Buell's account of the Harvard Reconstruction Unit. Mr. Colby's crisp and entertaining essay on "Barbers and Barbarisms" reveals a practiced hand. What seems to the reviewer a sound presentation of Russian affairs is given by Mr. Holbrook although the facts in the opening paragraph might have been brought more closely up to date...
...hard for listeners familiar with the work of amateur male choruses to believe that these singers were not any of them professionals. Their attacks were crisp and accurate, their phrasing correct, their tone beautifully rich and mellow, and their diction readily intelligible without reference to the words printed in the program...
...misses, perhaps, something in the nature of the essay. What has become of the periodical slam at the Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the essay. A typical one, on the S. A. T. C., if rather one-sided and possibly even unfair, rigorously expresses what most of us think about the relation between College and the Government; and the reverent and discerning words of the editors on Theodore Roosevelt recall his connection, while in College...