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...names of people who really are Communists, will he identify them? Answer: "It's not my business to go around knocking people, discrediting people." Is Matusow planning to skip the country? Answer: "I'm going to stay right here. I am also going to continue to entertain children in hospitals and orphanages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...singing into a live and exciting sound. Closely related is his distinction between "covered" tone for soft passages and "open" tone for loud. Radcliffe's precise production of each type keeps the quieter music always vivid and makes for unusually brilliant climaxes. Above all, the Choral Society aims to entertain its audience; if their zeal occasionally sacrifices subtlety or stylistic nuance, it is worth the loss--this became particularly apparent in Britten's carol There Is No Rose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe-Amherst Musicale | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Educational TV, of course, can hardly tolerate dullness, but at least it doesn't have to engage in the frenetic competition to "entertain" the public. The WGBH management feels that 'in a very real sense the program should take place not in the studio, but in the viewer's mind...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: WGBH: A Station for Special Publics Develops an Eye as Well as an Ear | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...fought bitterly with the General Court, but there was less encouragement in the offer than might appear. Thus the sly line in the Corporation's petition of thanks, expressing Harvard's willingness to use the money as far as it could "unless the General Court should see meet to entertain a new thought, and build it by a committee of their own choosing..." In other words, the handsome dwellinghouse would cost more than one thousand pounds and the Corporation was trying to duck the extra bills...

Author: By Samurl B. Potter, | Title: Wadsworth House | 1/25/1955 | See Source »

Students, whom the bell has always summoned to class, need no longer entertain the enticing doubt that one day the bell might not ring. It always will...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: College Abandons Hand-Rung Bell Amid Protests Against '1984' Trend | 11/30/1954 | See Source »

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