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...night before they sang songs after supper. As Princeton's and Harvard's football songs thrilled Sanders last night, if you had shut your eyes, you could have seen the old Headmaster looking on proudly. And justly proud he would have been, too. In both programs, his boys--the Glee Clubs of Princeton and Harvard--did him honor...
Harvard's triumph in serious music took the form of Elliott Carter's Defense of Corinth. In the two chansons by Pierre Certon (1510-1572) with which the Harvard Glee Club began, El Forbes' boys displayed their tremendous energy...
...from the steel experts to those shavers who take a sporting glee in eking out as many shaves as possible from a single blade: rinse but never wipe the blade, because that removes the silicon coat and causes the razor to snag on the beard...
...when I feel responsible for half of the population which I have done so much to liberate? Because of my utmost sincerity, I think that if I show some awkwardness, I need understanding rather than insults, which too many sectors of the American press are pouring on me with glee...
...stone-fast monasteries, ability to paint and carve figures in lifelike proportion was forgotten, and faces began to take on fixed expressions of wonder, glee and terror. But "primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...