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Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
...accept my profound thanks for including a program for the Penn-Harvard game in your issue of last Saturday. It is gratifying to know that, since the H.S.A. is helping undergraduates to earn their way through Harvard by raising the price of programs, someone is helping other undergraduates to curtail their expenses by providing free programs. John H. Frohlicher...
Naturally, we also own a good deal of printed material including a great many marches and concert music. Unfortunately, a good percentage of this was ruined also. The above does not mean that we shall curtail our effort in the slightest this season. We shall be at all the ballgames and shall give our Dartmouth concert, which we hope will be better than ever, and we have some surprises in store...
...Administration and both parties should start the task of explaining to most Americans that recognition of Red China is neither cowardly, immoral, nor an approval of Mao's regime, but rather an advantage in dealing directly with a force the U.S. wishes to curtail in power and size. At this point we can salvage little, but our present policy can very well lose us everything--including our allies and a precarious peace...
...Caltech needed a new head for its now famous Division of Biology. Professor Morgan had retired. Beadle was tapped for the job and accepted, knowing well that he would have to curtail, perhaps abandon, his personal research. Some of his friends felt that a great scientist was being wasted on a routine administrative job, and there was a precedent for their fears in the history of genetics. Mendel himself did nothing of note after he was made abbot...