Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grimes" is not a very good argument for opera in English, and it cannot fall back on the translation excuse. The fault lies with librettist Montagu Slater. He doesn't seem to think in musical terms, so that there is a lot of pretty tedious recitative, much of which is superfluous. The verbosity has apparently proved too much for Britten, for his music, though following thought and mood, does not fit the words very skillfully. This failing was exaggerated Thursday night by poor diction on the part of both soloists and chorus...
Elliott Perkins '23, instructor in History, emphasized the part that religious feeling and "matters of principle" played in swaying the middle classes during the English Civil War. "Look at the members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony," Perkins said. "Their motives came more from principles than from economics. In the seventeenth century, religion was the Englishman's intellectual food...
Three members of the History Department criticized the discussion of the French, English, and Russian Revolts at a Lowell House Forum last night. Providing the topic for the forum, Richard S. Stewart '51 outlined the course of these uprisings in some detail; his thesis was that organization of "focus groups" initiated each of these outbreaks...
...Engineers will play a team which has been practicing on a completely organized basis for the first time since the war, while the MIT ruggers, who are mostly English students, play on a much less formal basis...
Callanan, who is pretty happy over the way his men have adapted themselves to the English style of playing football, has several good backs. Captain Joe Eaton, John Densmore, and former varsity gridder Sam Adams all show speed and a knack in handling the ball in the fluid and constant action which typifies rugger...