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Despite the destruction, one squad member described the match as a "genteel affair." But the Yalies were hardly gentlemen. Depressed and defeated, the broken Bulldogs declined to attend the traditional post-match cocktail party, whimpering back to New Haven after the walloping...
Certainly the problem Harvard University and the three gentlemen named in the story face is not unique to this university. Every large organization, in which human beings are engaged, faces comparable problems In this case. It is bringing about adjustment, to the highest level possible between an academically oriented faculty and an administrative body of individuals, concerned with maintaining and advancing the corporate viability of the institution...
...production without flourishes, largely without heights and depths. After a bumpy overture, the chorus of "gentlemen of Japan" appears on stage in hideous white makeup and nondescript floppy bathrobes. The one conceivable excuse for the makeup--trying to make everyone look alike in a "seen one Jap you've seen 'em all" kind of way--is hardly achieved and hardly worth trying for. But this is the kind of mistake that you can get used to in the course of a production. Worse is a lack of imagination in characterization, delivery, choreography, lighting and musical arrangement...
...Good evening, ladies and gentlemen...
...hear one of them. He's addressing a tight little group in Littletown, Conn. (Madison Avenue is getting a little trite). "Well, as you know, this year we've got a tie-in with Oldsmobile. Now, gentlemen, I don't expect any of you boys to go out there in the pulpit and hard-sell an automobile. That is ridiculous. But I was thinking now. What do you say to this? If just every once in a while, if we'd throw in a few little terms, just little things like, uh, 'Drive the car that He'd drive...