Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...active astronauts. Said one guest, as Astronaut Rusty Schweickart walked by: "I don't know who he is, but he's one of them." Jan Armstrong, Pat Collins and Joan Aldrin formed a shortlived receiving line, Mrs. Armstrong taking the honors in a white lace dress and orchid corsage...
Still there is a remarkable absence of social distinction due to dress, speech, and habit. When you walk into a plant you can't tell who the manager is' he's dressed in construction boots and work clothes just like everybody else...
Nonetheless, the Harvard Summer School concert last week provided an example of last century's understanding of Bach. Pina Carmirelli, in a long black, sequined dress, exemplified the Romantic spirit in her performance. During the Bach violin-piano sonata in E minor, she presented one of the last Romantic interpretations of Bach. Schweitzer thinks that the sonata is unplayable today. He says that is can be played on a harpsichord and a violin with loosened bow to bring out the full flavor of the double-stopping. Wagner felt that the timber of the violin and the piano are naturally incompatible...
...Brazilian students at Harvard with the Inter-American University Foundation invite everyone to a South American carnival at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop JCR. Dress up in costume if you want to look like everyone else...
...production was a delightful compromise between ancient and modern dress and speech. Several of the lines were delivered perhaps a bit more graphically than Aristophanes intended, but that was alright. It made me catch several that I'd somehow missed before. There were several other nice touches besides Harmony, a role filled (and how) by Laurie Campbell--including a calypso chorus to Lysistrata, and a folk-song paean to Athena. the nicest, though, was to give the Spartans ten-gallon Stetsons and Texas accents. It sort of gave you a better idea of what Demosthenes was up against...