Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Librarians are traditionally a stodgy lot. The faculty committee on Libraries, however, deserves commendation for breaking tradition and imposing a three-hour limit on the circulation of Lamont closed research books. Come Reading Period, the glorious era of hidden volumes and missing books may be ended. Desks will no longer...
Yet the Committee disregarded the most important suggestion made by a special Student Council group. A great many people hide books and keep them out of circulation simply because they do not wish to study in Lamont. The buzzing lights, the oft-inadequate ventilation, and the noise and crowding of...
Victor Manusevitch's programming for the second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a...
Schumann's Konzertstueck for four horns and orchestra, Op. 86, was another sort of problem, for while it was good to hear this interesting, energetic piece, it was plain that the supremely confident soloists required had not been found, the horn being a notoriously intractable beast. There was volume, but...
NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 3. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 5. For 2? Plain, Golden (5) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. The Armada, Mattingly (6) 8. Groucho and Me, Marx (8...