Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-fifth Reunion classes will someday return to live entirely in the Houses, Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, predicted yesterday. He praised a proposal made to that effect last Wednesday by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...
...front of an airy outdoor platform, half ruin and half arbor, with stone pillars in the center and wooden frames trimmed with leaves on the sides. Though there is no scene which does not seem entirely at home in this environment, its air of almost-sombreness has the effect of bringing the low comedy scenes into closer accord with the rest of the play than Shakespeare probably intended...
...light across the front, as if to show that Hamlet had succeeded in rending the (over) elaborate facade of cheerful, orderly civilization that Claudius (with the help of Mr. Benthall) had built around his own rotting soul. This stroke of austerity is the most meaningful--and least pretty--scenic effect that Miss Crud-das has contrived. By some, or no, coincidence, the best acting of the evening occurs around this part of the play...
...Life doesn't hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp." Rupp himself cares little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball games." So far this season, Kentucky has won them all in tough competition, e.g., St. Louis, West Virginia, Maryland, at week's end ran its record to 11-0 by dumping Georgia Tech...
What stands out along with Gielgud's mastery of his material is his absorption in his subject-the sense, toward Shakespeare, of something loved and lifelong. The effect that such a recital seems to promise most, a flashing virtuosity, is what matters least. The essence of the evening is not glitter but glow...