Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good music, well-rehearsed musicians, and Mr. William Perry combined to make the Adams House Musical Society's closing concert a triumphant one. Presenting English and French works of the Eighteenth Century, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and instrumentalists from the greater Boston area accomplished the difficult feat of pleasing an audience with music most of them had never heard before...
Jean Babilée is a dancer U.S. balletomanes have been hearing about, in brief flashes from Paris, since the end of the war. The first flash was that he could leap as no one since Nijinsky. Then came a tale of an astonishing physical feat: in Jean Cocteau's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), Babilée hung by his neck on a gallows for a full minute, with no more extra support than he could get from wrapping one arm around a pillar...
...youth, Department Chairman Joshua Whatmough sought to learn a new language every summer to feed his interest in comparative philology. Few present-day concentrators try to duplicate this feat, but it would not be a bad idea, considering the knowledge of language needed for concentration in this field...
Miracle look artless and crude. Director Jean (Symphonic Pastorale) Delannoy can also take credit for the rare cinematic feat of evoking deep religious feeling without sugar & molasses. His constant perception of the story's human values, and Actor Fresnay's superbly sensitive playing make God Needs Men the best foreign-language film to reach the U.S. in at least a year...
...Committee on Education, which held a calm and intelligent hearing on H. 743, (a remarkable feat considering the topic), can hardly miss these drawbacks. Although it cannot pigeonhole H. 743, the Committee could do much to cut short the legislature's unwholesome parade by reporting this McCarthy-Dorgan bill unfavorably...