Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older advisors thought that the Harvard Dramatic Club was steering straight for certain failure when it decided to attempt this task. But the young men and girls of the Club were right; they knew what they could do, and they did it. The play was a success in every detail, not least in the stage settings, which were the most successful seen for many years in Boston or Cambridge. And the effect of the whole was enhanced by strangely beautiful music, also the composition of an undergraduate. Altogether it was a memorable performance which will remain long in the minds...
...presiding officer will be K. S. Plaffman, the chairman of the Smoker Committee, who will introduce the class president, B. McK. Henry. F. T. Baldwin will also speak and will explain in detail the arrangements that are being made for the Junior--Dance, to be held March...
...decisions must be made in the good old summer time. It stands to reason that the Athletic Association is showing in this refunding, ought to convince anyone they know their job: Even in this disagreeable piece of work, the Association shows consideration for the applicant down to the last detail...
With Russian skill in diffuse natural detail, the scene is built up quickly and quietly, aided by the illusion of striking scenery. The clowns, the ballet, the lion-tamer, the wardrobe-mistress, go their way at home and without introduction; the manager carries on his routine of squabbles, and the actors come and go from rehearsals. Little by little, the threads of plot are woven together, the more important characters brought into relief and allowed to disclose their hearts in conversational ease. Their lives grow through the four acts of the play. The lion-tamer plays her wiles...
...names are no; the only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...