Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Divinity School over current trends is due to the fact that you fill the Faculty with 'committed men.' You defend this practice in your recent President's Report: 'In view of this changing attitude toward religion, it becomes even more important that the subject be given expert attention within the University by scholars of the highest competence who can study theology fully because they do so as committed...
...spoofs English madrigals and Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs, with a small comment on Bach chorals thrown in between. His talent, however, is no less evident in some warm long songs and the music for the large production numbers. For these ballet scenes, Liz Keen contributes some amazingly expert choreography...
...London, the confusion seemed as impenetrable as in Hollywood. Said one expert on the peerage: "If you recognize the validity of the Austrian title, I shouldn't see why it would matter. Is Farouk Mr. Farouk because he lost his kingdom?" But a spokesman for Burke's ruled sternly: "Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain." In Hollywood, TV Producer Jack Elliott, who is putting together the Baron Nugent-Vicki Benet series, took a meat-and-potatoes view of the case: "The show has been put off until this thing gets cleared...
Enter first puritan: Harry Summers, an American major, who returns to liberated Rome after World War II as an art expert for UNESCO. Enter second puritan: his wife Jane, a Roman Catholic but, as she comes from Philadelphia, a puritan nonetheless. These two kill their principles to make a Roman honeymoon-not, however, with each other. The trouble with Harry is that he can only really enjoy himself if he knows he's being wicked. In Paris, he tries "laughing Simone from Marseille, a specialist in net underwear . . . and Mamai and Lisa and Danielle and Monique." His real fate...
Welcoming the Radcliffe singers back, the Glee Club sang Two Odes of Horace with a truly gorgeous tone. Composer Randall Thompson is a well-known expert at choral writing, and when his music is sung well the result is memorable. The concert closed with Trois Chansons by Ravel. These are a kind of musical sandwich, with a lovely lyrical piece between two witty, ironic and bitter-sweet choral songs. The performances were again excellent. If Woodworth can train his full choruses as well as he has trained the smaller groups, audiences will really have to sit up this spring...