Word: formals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dunster House play, "Love Rides the Rails," will be presented Saturday night, with a formal dance afterwards...
...would like to comment on an article which appeared in the Harvard CRIMSON, page one, on Saturday, December 4, 1954. The article, headed "House-Centered Weekend Will Replace Key Formal," contains, either through negligence or misinformation, two inaccuracies which I feel should be corrected...
...facts. The article begins by stating that "A weekend under the sponsorship of the various House Committees will probably succeed the defunct Crimson Key All-College Weekend," and continues with the assertion that "Separate Saturday night functions in each House are almost certain to replace the All-College Formal. . . ." These assumptions, however, have no foundation. Despite the "informal vote" which seemed to favor "some sort of spring weekend," Interhouse Dance Committee Chairman Carl Goldman has rightly stated that "the Dance Committee can't run a weekend unless the House Committees want it . . ." And, there has as yet been no indication...
Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra (Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). A brilliant composer of the younger generation, Massachusetts' Harold Shapero, 34, has an ear for bright sonorities, a gift for formal construction, and a fascination for bygone masterpieces that has caused controversy. This attractive work, completed in 1947, parallels his efforts in Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky styles, resembles Prokofiev more than any other model...
...nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the House of Representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees...