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...review, Ms. Smith made several seemingly gratuitous attacks that exhibited a lack of understanding for the game and the dynamics of the production. For example, she failed to support her assertion that HRG&SP "seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions," an opinion which has not been shared by a number of past Crimson reviewers. Her comment that the chorus' performance was "plagued by one member so annoying that I spent most of the show wishing that a flat would drop on her" was insensitive, unhelpful and obviously not shared by everyone (please note the independent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gondoliers Review Insulting, Unhelpful | 5/7/1993 | See Source »

...sound brilliant in one instance and like a fourth grade beginners group in the next. Both the set and the costumes seem to have come from Gilbert and Sullivan Central Casting, less the fault of the designers perhaps than of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Rough Sailing for Gondoliers | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...used to be that there was an easy explanation for this-the existence of the minor leagues. The elaborate pre-majors professional system provoked scores of high school phenoms to eschew their parents' wishes and scam to Cuba, Kansas, or Paris, Texas, to begin blazing their trails to the majors...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Going Batty Over Aluminum | 4/27/1993 | See Source »

...goal were to eradicate "elitism" pense, then why do they engage in practices embodying exclusivity?) Because it is such a small faction, I hope that students do not generalize and assume that such behavior is commonplace within the Undergraduate Council. The majority of Council members, including the present leadership, eschew the fact that a small faction is attempting to splinter our undergraduate government into interest groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sour Grapes at the Undergraduate Council | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...They shall bee slow to speak, & eschew not onely oathes, Lies, & uncertaine Rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing, frothy wanton words & offensive gestures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING IT BY THE RULES, COLONIAL STYLE | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

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