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...Houses. But House sports, organizations, and dances do not provide the intellectual basis upon which the informal yet cohesive House must rest. Until thinking is sanctioned outside libraries and classrooms, and until teachers can talk to students when off the lecture platform, the Houses can not become the focal points of undergraduate life...
...combining architectural compensations with careful selection of staff members, the University can build good houses within the limits of available funds. As the focal point of college life, the House system must not suffer from expansion...
...star of the film was clearly the chorus; and the whole production seemed to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sang beautifully together and were right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, was unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert was the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapted most effective the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...other work, Saarinen readily acknowledges a number of his father's influences: a sense of spaciousness and orderliness, the complementing of existing structures, the use of bodies of water to provide focal points, resistance to a set style, a fondness for expressive materials. But there is another influence at work: that of Mies van der Rohe, the glass and steel purist whose "Less is More" has become younger architects' gospel...
...Focal point of the Harvard-North Carolina State rivalry will be the 200 yard butterfly. Dave Hawkins won the event last year in 2:13.8, but he will be facing two of the best fly-men in the country in State's Jack Nelson and Phil Drake...